Vietnamese phrase guide

How to say I am hurt in Vietnamese

Tôi bị đau means "I am hurt" in Vietnamese. Hear pronunciation, learn polite variants, examples, and common mistakes.

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To say "I am hurt" in Vietnamese, say "Tôi bị đau". It is health and emergency, and the variants below show how to use it naturally.

Easy pronunciation: toy bee dow
Best use: Use this when explaining pain. For a body part, say tôi đau + body part or tôi bị đau + body part.

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Tôi bị đau

I am hurt

Literal meaning: I suffer pain

Easy pronunciation: toy bee dow

Use this when explaining pain. For a body part, say tôi đau + body part or tôi bị đau + body part.

Tôi toi level Keep the voice steady and level. bị bi heavy Drop the voice low and short. đau dau level Đ starts like English d; do not say z.

Vietnamese spelling

Tôi → tờ ôi tôi

bị → bờ i bi nặng bị

đau → đờ au đau

Tôi đau đầu

I have a headache

Pain + body part.

Tôi bị đau bụng

I have a stomachache

Symptom pattern.

Tôi cảm thấy chóng mặt

I feel dizzy

State pattern.

Tôi bị đau ở đây.

I hurt here.

Tôi đau bụng từ hôm qua.

I have had a stomachache since yesterday.

What does bị mean with illness?

Bị marks that something bad happened to you or that you have a symptom/illness.

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