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cách đây

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Adverb
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Used to indicate a period of time in the past from now.

vi Tôi đã gặp anh ấy cách đây ba năm.

en I met him three years ago.

Parts
cách / đây / A compound of cách + đây …
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OriginA compound of cách + đây

Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
格低
Candidates by syllable
cách 格 đây 低
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
cách / cách mạng khoa học - kỹ thuật / cách mạng màu / cách mạng tư sản …
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Use
cách thức / khoảng cách / tính cách / nhân cách …
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