Definition

1. Verb:
   • To mate (specifically for a female pig): The primary meaning refers to the act of breeding or coupling a sow (female pig) for reproductive purposes.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Người nông dân đang cho con lợn cái đi tơ. (The farmer is mating the sow.)
  • Con lợn nái này đã đến tuổi đi tơ. (This breeding sow is old enough to mate.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is highly specific to animal husbandry, particularly pig farming. It is not used in a general or human context.
• The phrase "cho... đi tơ" (to let/make... mate) is the standard construction, where the object is the female pig.

Variants and Related Words

• Phối giống (verb): To breed, to inseminate. This is a more general and modern term for animal breeding.
• Đực giống (noun): Stud, breeding male.

Synonyms

• Giao phối (verb): To copulate, to mate (a formal biological term applicable to animals).

Notes on Meaning

• "Đi tơ" is an archaic or specialized rural term. In contemporary language, "phối giống" is more commonly used.
• It applies exclusively to the female animal (the sow) being taken to or made to mate with a boar.

1. Mate (a sow)
   • Cho con lợn cái đi tơ
     To mate a sow