Definition

1. Verb:
   • To go to work: To travel to one's workplace to perform one's job or occupation.
   • To be employed / to have a job: To be in a state of having regular employment.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Anh ấy đi làm lúc 7 giờ sáng mỗi ngày. (He goes to work at 7 a.m. every day.)
  • Chị tôi đã đi làm được hai năm rồi. (My older sister has been employed / has had a job for two years now.)
  • Ngày mai là ngày lễ, chúng tôi không phải đi làm. (Tomorrow is a holiday, we don't have to go to work.)

Advanced Usage

• "đi làm về": to return from work.
  • Bố tôi vừa đi làm về. (My father just came home from work.)
• "đi làm ăn xa": to go far away for work/business.
  • Nhiều thanh niên phải đi làm ăn xa. (Many young people have to go far away to work/make a living.)
• "sắp đi làm": to be about to start working (often for the first time).
  • Con gái tôi sắp đi làm. (My daughter is about to start her first job.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đi học (verb): to go to school/study. (Contrasts with "đi làm").
• Làm việc (verb): to work. (Focuses on the action of working, not the travel).
• Công việc (noun): job, work.
• Nơi làm việc (noun): workplace.

Synonyms

• Đến chỗ làm: to go to the workplace.
• Đi đến cơ quan / công ty: to go to the office/company.
• Có việc làm: to have a job.

Related Phrases

• Giờ đi làm: commute time / time to go to work.
  • Giờ đi làm ở thành phố rất đông đúc. (The commute time in the city is very crowded.)
• Trang phục đi làm: work attire / office wear.
  • Cô ấy luôn mặc trang phục đi làm rất chỉn chu. (She always wears very neat work attire.)

Related Idioms

• "Đầu tắt mặt tối vì đi làm": (Lit: Head off, face dark from going to work) To be extremely busy and exhausted from work.
  • Anh ấy đầu tắt mặt tối vì đi làm cả tuần. (He is completely exhausted from working all week.)
• "Đi làm nuôi miệng": (Lit: To go to work to feed one's mouth) To work for a basic living, to make ends meet.
  • Công việc này chỉ đủ để đi làm nuôi miệng thôi. (This job is only enough to make ends meet.)

verb

1. to go to work ; to go to business