Definition

1. Verb:
   • To teach: To impart knowledge, skills, or information to someone through instruction or example.
   • To train: To instruct or coach someone (or an animal) in a particular skill or type of behavior.
   • To educate: To provide intellectual, moral, and social instruction.
   • To tell / To instruct (formal/archaic): To give an order or directive, often from a superior to a subordinate.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Cô giáo dạy môn lịch sử. (The teacher teaches history.)
  • Anh ấy dạy tôi cách sửa xe. (He taught me how to fix a car.)
  • Cha mẹ có trách nhiệm dạy con cái. (Parents have a responsibility to educate their children.)
  • Cụ dạy chúng tôi phải giữ lời hứa. (The elder instructed us to keep our promises.)

Advanced Usage

• "dạy dỗ": to educate and bring up (often implying moral instruction).

  • Việc dạy dỗ trẻ nhỏ cần rất nhiều kiên nhẫn. (Educating young children requires a lot of patience.)

• "dạy bảo": to teach and advise (with a gentle, instructive tone).

  • Cảm ơn những lời dạy bảo quý báu của thầy. (Thank you for your valuable teachings and advice, teacher.)

Variants and Related Words

• Dạy học (v): to teach, to instruct (academically).

  • Bà ấy đã dạy học được hơn ba mươi năm. (She has been teaching for over thirty years.)

• Dạy kèm (v): to tutor, to give private lessons.

  • Tôi cần tìm người dạy kèm toán cho con. (I need to find a math tutor for my child.)

• Giáo dạy (v): to instruct, to educate (formal, often used in written contexts).

  • Triết lý giáo dạy của trường rất tiến bộ. (The school's educational philosophy is very progressive.)

Synonyms

• Instruct: to direct or command someone to do something, especially as an official order.
• Tutor: to teach a single student or a small group.
• Coach: to train or teach, especially for a skill or sport.

Related Idioms

• Dạy khôn: to teach someone a (hard) lesson, often through experience.

  • Lần thất bại này dạy khôn cho nó biết phải cẩn thận hơn. (This failure taught him a lesson to be more careful.)

• Nuôi con không dạy, con hư tại mẹ: (proverb) If you raise a child without teaching them, the child's bad behavior is the mother's fault. (Equivalent to "Spare the rod, spoil the child.")

  • Bà ấy luôn nhớ câu "nuôi con không dạy, con hư tại mẹ". (She always remembers the saying about the mother's responsibility in a child's upbringing.)

verb

1. to teach; to train; to educate
   • dạy tiếng việt
     to teach Vietnamese