# Khá: quite in Vietnamese (A1)

> Khá before an adjective means "quite" or "fairly": more than a little, but less than rất. Phòng này khá rộng. This room is quite big.

Source: https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/kha-quite/ · Updated 2026-11-09

**quite**

Pattern: `khá + [adjective]`

Level: A1 (our estimate) · Register: everyday

Typed without accents: kha

Variants:

- tương đối (relatively)

*Khá* before an adjective means "quite" or "fairly": more than a little, but less than *rất*. *Phòng này khá rộng.* This room is quite big. *Anh nói tiếng Việt khá giỏi.* You speak Vietnamese quite well.

It works with good and bad qualities alike: *khá ngon* (pretty good), *khá xa* (quite far), *khá đông* (fairly busy). In speech you'll often hear *khá là*: *Quán này khá là ngon.*

That's the difference from *hơi* (a bit). *Hơi* is usually for something a little too much or not quite right, like *hơi mặn* (a bit salty), so it rarely goes with praise. For praise, *khá* is the word: *khá ngon*, not *hơi ngon*.

*Cũng* before an adjective is cooler. *Cũng ngon* often means "it's OK, not bad", a polite, lukewarm verdict, though with a warm tone (*cũng ngon đó!*) it can be real praise. *Khá ngon* is a clearer compliment.

*Tương đối* (relatively) does a similar job, a little more measured in tone: *Giá ở đây tương đối rẻ.* Prices here are relatively cheap.

## Examples

- Phòng này khá rộng. — This room is quite big.
- Anh nói tiếng Việt khá giỏi. — You speak Vietnamese quite well.
- Hôm nay đường khá đông. — The roads are fairly busy today.
- Quán này khá là ngon. — This place is pretty good.

## Words in this pattern

- [khá](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/words/kha-rather/#s_kha_rather): rather

## Compare

- [A bit, slightly: hơi + adjective](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/hoi-a-bit/): a bit
- [Fairly, it's OK: cũng + adjective](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/cung-fairly-ok/): fairly / it'll do

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