Expressing “about to” with “sắp”

In Vietnamese, we use sắp to express “about to”, like in “I’m about to go”.

Structure

Place sắp before a verb to express “about to”.

sắp + verb

An alternative to sắp is sắp sửa, which is more common in spoken Vietnamese than written.

sắp sửa + verb

Examples


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