Vietnamese phrase

How to say “Check please (polite)” in Vietnamese

Check please (polite)” in Vietnamese is

Cho con tính tiền

Hear it in both accents

Vietnamese sounds noticeably different north to south. Both are recorded so you can match wherever you are.

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Used in a sentence

Cô ơi, cho con tính tiền hai ly chè.

Ma'am, can I have the check for the two sweet soups?

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Worth knowing

Word by word: cho (let) + con (child/I) + tính (calculate) + tiền (money)

When you would use it

This line comes from the Sweet Soup Order situation pack in XinChao (Survival) — the moments you actually run into in Việt Nam, not textbook drills.

See the survival packs

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