# Ai cũng: every- / any- in Vietnamese (A2)

> A question word followed by cũng means "every-" or "any-": Ai cũng biết chị Lan. Everyone knows Lan. Món nào ở đây cũng ngon. Every dish here is good.

Source: https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/qword-cung-every/ · Updated 2026-10-17

**every- / any-**

Pattern: `Ai / [noun] nào + cũng + [verb] · [object] gì / nào + [person] + cũng + [verb] · Ở đâu / Bao giờ / Lúc nào + [person] + cũng + [verb]`

Level: A2 (our estimate) · Register: everyday

Typed without accents: ai cung, nao cung, luc nao cung

A question word followed by *cũng* means "every-" or "any-": *Ai cũng biết chị Lan.* Everyone knows Lan. *Món nào ở đây cũng ngon.* Every dish here is good. *Cũng* goes straight before the verb or describing word, and the question word goes somewhere in front of it.

That means the question word moves. When it's the thing someone does something to, it comes to the front, before the person: *Món nào em cũng thích.* I like every dish. Time and place work the same way: *Lúc nào ảnh cũng trễ.* He's always late. *Ở Sài Gòn, chỗ nào cũng có quán cà phê.* In Saigon there are cafés everywhere. In Hà Nội, "always" is also *bao giờ cũng*.

With *được* (fine) after it, this is how you say "anything's fine": *Ăn gì cũng được.* *Đi đâu cũng được*, wherever you like.

In a *có … không* question the same words mean "any" (*có ai … không?*, anyone?), and with *không* before the verb they mean "no-": *không ai biết*, nobody knows. For a firmer "any … at all", *bất cứ* comes later.

## A common mistake

✗ Em cũng thích món nào.

✓ Món nào em cũng thích.

*Món nào* has to come before *cũng*, so the thing you like moves to the front of the sentence.

## Examples

- Ai cũng biết chị Lan. — Everyone knows Lan.
- Món nào ở đây cũng ngon. — Every dish here is good.
- Saigon: Lúc nào ảnh cũng trễ. | Hà Nội: Lúc nào anh ấy cũng muộn. — He's always late.
- Ăn gì cũng được. — Anything's fine with me.

## Compare

- [Nobody, nothing, nowhere: không … ai / gì / đâu](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/qword-khong-nobody/): nobody / nothing
- [Anyone? Anything? có … ai / gì … không](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/qword-any-question/): anyone / anything?
- [Every morning, every house: doubled words (sáng sáng, nhà nhà, ai ai cũng)](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/redup-every/): every …, all without exception

## Variant of

- [Any … at all: bất cứ / bất kỳ](https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/bat-cu-any/): any … whatsoever

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