Definition

1. Verb:
   • To teach (at a school or institution): The primary meaning refers to the professional activity of instructing students, typically within a formal educational setting like a school.
   • To be engaged in teaching as a profession: This sense emphasizes teaching as one's career or occupation.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Cô ấy dạy học ở một trường tiểu học. (She teaches at a primary school.)
  • Ông ấy đã dạy học được hơn ba mươi năm. (He has been teaching for over thirty years.)
  • Tôi muốn theo nghề dạy học. (I want to pursue the profession of teaching.)

Advanced Usage

• "Làm nghề dạy học": To teach for a living; to be a teacher by profession.
  • Cha tôi làm nghề dạy học suốt đời. (My father was a teacher by profession his whole life.)

Variants and Related Words

• Dạy (verb): To teach, to instruct. (A more general term; "dạy học" specifically implies teaching in a school context).
• Giáo viên (noun): Teacher.
• Giảng dạy (verb): To lecture, to teach (often used in higher education or more formal instruction contexts).

Synonyms

• Giảng dạy: To lecture, to teach.
• Truyền đạt kiến thức: To impart knowledge.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Dạy kèm: To tutor, to give private lessons.
  • Cô giáo dạy kèm toán cho tôi vào cuối tuần. (The teacher tutors me in math on weekends.)

Related Idioms

• "Trồng người": Literally "to cultivate people"; a noble idiom referring to the teaching profession, emphasizing its role in shaping individuals.
  • Nghề dạy học là nghề trồng người. (The teaching profession is the profession of cultivating people.)

1. Teach (at a school...)
   • Làm nghề dạy học
     To teach for a living, to be a teacher by profession