Definition

1. Verb phrase:
   • To enter the season / to begin the season: Refers to the specific time when a crop, typically agricultural, starts its main period of growth, cultivation, or harvest. It marks the commencement of the active phase for that particular plant or product.
   • To be in season: Describes the period when a specific fruit, vegetable, or crop is abundantly available for harvesting and consumption.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Các cánh đồng lúa đang vào vụ. (The rice fields are entering the growing season.)
  • Cam sắp vào vụ, giá sẽ rẻ hơn. (Oranges are about to be in season; the price will be cheaper.)
  • Nông dân bận rộn khi cà phê vào vụ thu hoạch. (Farmers are busy when coffee enters the harvest season.)

Advanced Usage

• The phrase is almost exclusively used in an agricultural or horticultural context. It can be applied metaphorically in business to describe the start of a peak period for a product or service, though this is less common.
  • Công ty du lịch vào vụ hè. (The tourism company is entering the summer season [peak period].)

Variants and Related Words

• Đến vụ (verb phrase): to come to the season. Similar in meaning, emphasizing the arrival of the season.

  • Xoài đã đến vụ rồi. (Mangoes have come into season.)

• Trái vụ (adjective/adverb): out of season. The opposite state.

  • Dâu tây trái vụ thường đắt. (Out-of-season strawberries are usually expensive.)

Synonyms

• To begin the season: To start the cultivation/harvest period.
• To be in season: To be at the time of peak production and availability.

Related Idioms

• Vào vụ mới biết vụ: An idiom meaning "You only understand the true nature of the season/crop once you are in it." It conveys that real experience is necessary to fully comprehend a situation.
  • Làm nông nghiệp, vào vụ mới biết vụ. (In agriculture, you only understand the season once you're in it.)