cách

From Proto-Vietic *kac, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kac. Cognate with Vietnamese cắt (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /kac⁶/

cách

1. to cut
2. to harvest

• Nguyễn Văn Khang; Bùi Chỉ; Hoàng Văn Hành (2002), Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)‎^[1], Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội.

From Proto-Celtic *kʷākʷos from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂-kʷo-. Cognate with Middle Welsh pawb and modern Welsh pawb, Old Church Slavonic какъ (kakŭ, “what kind of”), Lithuanian kõks (“what kind of”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːx/

cách (genitive cáich)

1. everyone
2. whoever

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cách.

Often modified by the definite article in when defined by a relative clause.

• cach (determiner)

• Irish: cách
• Scottish Gaelic: càch

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 490, page 310; reprinted 2017
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cách”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kajk̟̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kat̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kat̚˦˥]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 格.

cách

1. way, manner, fashion

   cách làm việc ― the way of working

   một cách nhanh chóng ― quickly, rapidly

2. (grammar, linguistics) grammatical case

   sở hữu cách/cách sở hữu ― the genitive case

cách

1. (in certain expression, often literary) Forming intensifiers preceding certain particles and quantifiers

   dù có cố gắng cách mấy... ― no matter how hard you try...

Sino-Vietnamese word from 隔.

cách

1. to be distant from, to be separated from

   Nhà tui cách thành phố 50 cây số.

   My house is 50 kilometers from (the/a) city.

   Tôi không biết khoảng cách đó là bao nhiêu.

   I don't know how far that is. (literally, “what the distance is”)

cách

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 隔

cách

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 革