What it means
"cũng" means "also / too" before a verb, echoing what someone else does. Paired with a question word (ai, gì, đâu, nào...) it becomes emphatic "every / any" — "ai cũng" = everyone, "gì cũng" = anything. With "ngay cả ... cũng" it means "even."
Cũng nghĩa "cũng/luôn" đứng trước động từ để nói mình làm giống người khác. Đi với từ để hỏi (ai, gì, đâu, nào...) thì thành nghĩa nhấn mạnh "mọi/bất kỳ": ai cũng, gì cũng. Với ngay cả ... cũng nghĩa là "ngay cả".
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“cũng” has more than one use
Same word, different jobs in a sentence. These are covered separately:
- cũng CŨNG, as adverb, indicates an action of a subject oriented towards many different objects that are identical (…
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