# Mười mấy / mấy chục in Vietnamese (A2)

> You know mấy as "how many?", and as "a few" in a statement. After a round number it means "and a few more": mười mấy is ten-something, anywhere from…

Source: https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/muoi-may-ten-something/ · Updated 2026-10-17

**in the teens, twenties; dozens of**

Pattern: `mười mấy + [noun] · [x] mươi mấy + [noun] · mấy chục / mấy trăm + [noun]`

Level: A2 (our estimate) · Register: everyday

Typed without accents: muoi may, may chuc

Variants:

- hai mấy, ba mấy (shorter, in quick speech)

You know *mấy* as "how many?", and as "a few" in a statement. After a round number it means "and a few more": *mười mấy* is ten-something, anywhere from eleven to nineteen. *Em gái tôi mới mười mấy tuổi.* My little sister is only in her teens.

It works after any ten: *hai mươi mấy* (twenty-something), *ba mươi mấy* (thirty-something). It's the easy way to give an age without being exact: *Ảnh chắc hai mươi mấy tuổi.* He's probably in his twenties (in Hà Nội, *anh ấy*). In quick speech you'll also hear the shorter *hai mấy*, *ba mấy*.

Hundreds work the same way, and you'll hear this a lot with prices: *hai trăm mấy ngàn*, two hundred and something thousand đồng (in Hà Nội, *nghìn*).

At the front, before *chục* (ten), *trăm* or *ngàn*, *mấy* means "several": *mấy chục người* (dozens of people), *mấy trăm người* (hundreds of people). *Mấy chục* is vaguer than *vài chục* (a few dozen), which keeps the number small.

*Khoảng* gives a figure that could fall either side: *khoảng hai mươi* is about twenty. *Hai mươi mấy* is always more than twenty and less than thirty.

## Examples

- Em gái tôi mới mười mấy tuổi. — My little sister is only in her teens.
- Saigon: Ảnh chắc hai mươi mấy tuổi. | Hà Nội: Anh ấy chắc hai mươi mấy tuổi. — He's probably in his twenties.
- Saigon: Đi bộ mười mấy phút là tới. | Hà Nội: Đi bộ mười mấy phút là đến. — It's ten-odd minutes on foot.
- Đám cưới có mấy trăm người. — There were hundreds of people at the wedding.
- Saigon: Đi chợ hết hai trăm mấy ngàn. | Hà Nội: Đi chợ hết hai trăm mấy nghìn. — The shopping came to two hundred and something thousand đồng.

## Compare

- [How many (a small number): mấy before the noun](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/may-how-many/): how many (few)?
- [A few: vài / mấy + classifier + noun](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/vai-few/): a few
- [About (a number): khoảng / chừng / độ](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/khoang-about/): approximately

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