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# assistant

«assistant» in Mova's school dictionary: **to help someone else do their work** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an assistant, assistants); adjective (assistant — assistant head teacher)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is to help someone else do their work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#m1)

2) A shop assistant is a person who serves customers in a shop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#m2)

3) A computer program that helps you, such as a voice assistant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school, a teaching assistant helps the teacher and the pupils. In shops, you ask a shop assistant for help. In technology, a digital assistant answers questions; be careful what personal information you tell it. Phrases: teaching assistant, shop assistant, personal assistant, voice assistant, assistant coach.

### examples

- Our teaching assistant helps me with reading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x1)
- Ask the shop assistant where the shoes are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x2)
- The doctor's assistant called my name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x3)
- The assistant coach set up the cones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x4)
- A voice assistant can tell you the weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x5)
- The magician's assistant held the hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x6)
- As they sailed on, they came by chance to the place where the boatman's assistant lived, at a little distance from the bank of the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/#x7)

### note

Use "an": an assistant. Countable. Spelling: double s, and it ends "-ant", not "-ent". The verb is "assist" (help) and the noun for help is "assistance".

### In the corpora

- [Voice assistants can be linked to shopping accounts, so grown-ups should set a PIN for purchases.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/10/)
- [Voice assistants turn sounds into words and then guess what you meant; accents and background noise can confuse them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/5/)
- [For simple jobs with live data, such as timers and weather, voice assistants are usually useful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/6/)
- ["Excuse me" is a polite way to get a stranger's attention, like a shop assistant's.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/127-excuse-me-and-table-manners/6/)
- [The teaching assistant or aide helps teach the class and is listened to like a teacher.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assistant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assistant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.