Definition

Noun: - Tenant farmer: A farmer who cultivates land owned by a landlord, typically paying rent in the form of a share of the crops produced. - Tenant: A person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trước Cách mạng Tháng Tám, nhiều nông dân chỉ là những tá điền nghèo khổ. (Before the August Revolution, many farmers were just poor tenant farmers.)
  • Ông ấy không phải chủ đất mà chỉ là một tá điền. (He is not a landowner but merely a tenant.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "tá điền" is strongly associated with the feudal and colonial agricultural systems in Vietnam's history, where land ownership was concentrated in the hands of a few.
• It often implies a relationship of economic dependence and social inequality between the landowner () and the cultivator.

Variants and Related Words

• Điền tá: A less common, synonymous term for tenant farmer.
• Nông dân không có ruộng: Landless peasant (a broader descriptive term).
• Người thuê ruộng: Person who rents farmland (a more general, modern descriptive phrase).

Synonyms

• Người làm thuê: Hired laborer (emphasizes the wage-earning aspect).
• Métayer: (French origin) Sharecropper, tenant farmer who pays rent with a share of the produce.

Related Phrases

• Chế độ tá điền: The tenant farming system.
• Quan hệ địa chủ - tá điền: Landlord-tenant farmer relationship.

Related Idioms

• Thân phận tá điền: To be in the position/status of a tenant farmer. This idiom conveys a sense of having no land ownership, being economically vulnerable, and subject to the will of the landlord.
  • Cả đời ông cụ sống trong thân phận tá điền. (The old man lived his whole life in the status of a tenant farmer.)

noun

1. tenant, tenant farmer