有的

yǒu de

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Meaning · English

Some: certain members of a group, as against the rest. It comes before a noun or after the group it picks from, and often in pairs: 有的…有的… 'some…, others…'. It stands before the verb, never as an object: for 'I bought some', say 我买了一些.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Một số người hay vật trong cả nhóm, giống “có người…, có cái…” của tiếng Việt. Đứng trước danh từ hoặc sau nhóm được nhắc tới, hay đi thành cặp: 有的…有的… (có người… có người…). Chỉ đứng trước động từ, không làm tân ngữ; muốn nói “tôi mua một ít” thì dùng 一些: 我买了一些.

PronounRegister: neutral

Examples

我的朋友有的会说汉语。Wǒ de péngyou yǒude huì shuō Hànyǔ.Some of my friends can speak Chinese.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Common questions

What does “有的” mean?

Some: certain members of a group, as against the rest. It comes before a noun or after the group it picks from, and often in pairs: 有的…有的… 'some…, others…'. It stands before the verb, never as an object: for 'I bought some', say 我买了一些.

Is “有的” formal or informal?

有的 is generally neutral.

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