Hàng / Hằng (Quan.)

Situations

S1: I get up at 6 o'clock every day.

Hàng ngày tôi thức dậy lúc 6 giờ.
(I get up at 6 o'clock every day.)

S2: My mother goes to the pagoda on the 15th of every month.

Mẹ tôi đi chùa vào ngày 15 hàng tháng.
(My mother goes to the pagoda on the 15th of every month.)

Hàng often expresses something periodic.

Definition

Hàng / Hằng, as a quantifier, is placed before a noun of time (day, week, month) to express the repetition of time (day, week, month) of a certain action or state.

  • To indicate the repetition of a certain action or state according to time, we can use mọi, mỗi. However, these words imply different meanings. Cf:
[1] Hàng / hằng ngày nó đi ngủ lúc 12 giờ đêm.
    (He goes to bed at 12 o'clock every night.)
    (Habit.)
[2] Mỗi ngày nó đi ngủ lúc 12 giờ đêm.
    (Each night he goes to bed at 12 o'clock.)
    (Every night is the same.)
[3] Mọi ngày nó đi ngủ lúc 12 giờ đêm.
    (He usually goes to bed at 12 o'clock.)
    (But today something has changed!)

Cf. mọi (p. 245), mỗi1 (p. 249).