Break

"Break" in Vietnamese

giải lao

(rest or pause, usually from work)

nghỉ

(rest or pause, usually from work)

bị bể

(intransitive: to separate into (to end up in) two or more pieces)

hỏng

(intransitive: to stop functioning properly or altogether)

làm bể

(transitive: to separate into (to cause to end up in) two or more pieces)

vỡ giọng

(of a male voice, to become deeper at puberty)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.