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), 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): /kaːx/

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, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 490, page 310
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cách”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kajk̟̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kat̚˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) 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. (lit. what the distance is)

cách

1. non-conductive or -proof or insulating

   Antonym: dẫn

   cách điện ― non-electroconductive, (electrically) insulating

   cách nhiệt ― non-thermoconductive, (thermally) insulating

   cách âm ― soundproof

Sino-Vietnamese word from 革.

cách

1. (only in compounds) to change, to reform