# Quá trời / làm sao (end): so very …! in Vietnamese (B1)

> You know quá after an adjective: Ngon quá! Saigon speech has stronger ways to react. Quá trời is the everyday one: Đông quá trời! It's so crowded!

Source: https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/exclaim-intensifiers/ · Updated 2026-10-17

**so very …!**

Pattern: `[adjective] + quá trời! · [adjective] + quá chừng! / ghê! · [adjective] + làm sao! (literary)`

Level: B1 (our estimate) · Register: everyday · Medium: spoken

Typed without accents: qua troi, lam sao (end)

Situations: [Messages and social media](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/?use=texting)

Saigon: quá trời; quá chừng; ghê | Hà Nội: quá; kinh

You know *quá* after an adjective: *Ngon quá!* Saigon speech has stronger ways to react. *Quá trời* is the everyday one: *Đông quá trời!* It's so crowded! *Mắc quá trời!* That's way too expensive! It can follow a verb too: *Hôm qua em ăn quá trời.* I ate so much yesterday.

*Quá chừng* works the same way. *Ghê* after an adjective is lighter and friendlier, often admiring: *Đẹp ghê!* How pretty! *Giỏi ghê!* Well done, you! Don't confuse it with *ghê* on its own, which means "gross" or "scary": *Ghê quá!* *Luôn* at the end makes any of these stronger still: *Ngon quá trời luôn!*

In Hà Nội people mostly say *quá*, and younger people also use *kinh* (from *kinh khủng*, terrible) for "so very". *Làm sao* after an adjective, as in *Đẹp làm sao!*, is for songs and poems; you'll read it more than you hear it.

Compare *vậy* after an adjective, *Nóng vậy!*, which reacts to something you didn't expect. And *ơi là*, as in *đẹp ơi là đẹp*, repeats the adjective for a playful "so, so …".

## Examples

- Saigon: Trời ơi, đông quá trời! | Hà Nội: Trời ơi, đông quá! — Oh my, it's so crowded!
- Saigon: Bánh này ngon quá trời luôn! | Hà Nội: Bánh này ngon quá! — This cake is just so good!
- Saigon: Hôm nay nóng quá chừng. | Hà Nội: Hôm nay nóng quá. — It's so hot today.
- Saigon: Con bé dễ thương ghê! | Hà Nội: Con bé đáng yêu quá! — That little girl is so cute!

## Words in this pattern

- [ghê](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/words/ghe-so/#lx_ghe): exclaiming
- [quá trời](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/words/qua-troi/#s_qua_troi): extremely

## Compare

- [So …! and too …: quá after or before](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/qua-so/): so … ! / too …
- [So very …! Adj + ơi là + Adj](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/oi-la/): so so …!
- [So …! (surprise): adjective + vậy / thế](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/the-vay-so-adj/): so (surprised)
- [Right away, while you're at it: verb + luôn](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/luon-right-away/): right away; as well; totally

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