# Hết: (do) all of / used up in Vietnamese (A2)

> After a verb, hết means "all of it, until nothing is left": Em ăn hết rồi. I've eaten it all.

Source: https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/het-all/ · Updated 2026-10-17

**(do) all of / used up**

Pattern: `[verb] + hết + [object] · [plural subject] + [verb] + hết (rồi)`

Level: A2 (our estimate) · Register: everyday

Typed without accents: het

After a verb, *hết* means "all of it, until nothing is left": *Em ăn hết rồi.* I've eaten it all. Compare *xong*, which you know: *ăn xong* is "finished eating", while *ăn hết* is "ate it all up", with nothing left on the plate.

With an object, *hết* goes right after the verb, before the object: *uống hết ly nước* (drink the whole glass of water), *làm hết bài tập* (do all the homework), *đọc hết cuốn sách* (read the whole book). *Rồi* at the end says it's done.

With more than one person, *hết* after the verb means "all of them": *Tụi nhỏ ngủ hết rồi.* The kids are all asleep. *Mọi người về hết rồi.* Everyone has gone home.

Two other uses look similar. Before a noun, with no verb, *hết* means "run out of": *hết tiền*, out of money. At the end of a negative sentence, it means "at all": *Em không biết gì hết.* I don't know anything at all.

## Examples

- Em ăn hết rồi, ngon quá! — I ate it all, it was so good!
- Saigon: Con uống hết ly sữa đi. | Hà Nội: Con uống hết cốc sữa đi. — Drink up your milk.
- Chị đọc hết cuốn sách đó rồi. — I've read the whole of that book.
- Saigon: Tụi nhỏ ngủ hết rồi. | Hà Nội: Bọn trẻ ngủ hết rồi. — The kids are all asleep.

## Words in this pattern

- [hết](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/words/het-run-out/#s_het_all_of_it): all of it

## Compare

- [Finished doing: verb + xong](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/xong-finished/): finish doing
- [Run out of, no longer: hết + noun or adjective](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/het-run-out/): none left / no longer
- [Finishing off the rest: verb + cho hết, cho xong / nốt](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/not-finish-off/): do the rest, finish off

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