nị

From Cantonese 你 (nei⁵) (SV: nhĩ).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ni˧˨ʔ]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɪj˨˩ʔ]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nɪj˨˩˨]

nị

1. (Southern Vietnam, originally towards a Cantonese speaker, now humorous, especially in mimicking stereotypical "Chinese" speech) thou, you (second-person pronoun)

   Coordinate term: ngộ

   • 1999, Bùi Anh Tấn, chapter 2, in Một thế giới không có đàn bà [A Womenless World]:

     Mã Sinh nói, giọng lơ lớ tiếng Việt:
     "Ngộ xin lỗi nị, vất vả quá chừng."

     Mã Sinh say, voice are lisp Vietnamese:
     "I apologize to you, you have been hard."

• moa/toa (towards a French speaker)
• hoá/lứ (towards a Teochew speaker)

• nì (NWY)

See more at èyinì, compare with Olukumi ẹnẹ̀, which may suggest a Proto-Yoruba origin. Vowel harmony when interacting with a close vowel converts nị̀ into nì, for example, when compounded with èyí.

• IPA^(key): /nɪ̃̀/

nị̀

1. (CY, NWY) that thing/person

   Synonyms: èyinì, ìyẹn, ghìn