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# teach

«teach» in Mova's school dictionary: **to help someone learn something by showing or explaining it** — 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

verb (teach, teaches, taught, teaching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To teach means to help someone learn something by showing or explaining it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#m1)

2) To teach can mean to give lessons as a job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#m2)

3) Something can teach you a lesson when you learn from it, often from a mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school teachers teach subjects like maths, reading and science, and pupils can teach each other. In everyday life parents teach children to ride a bike, swim and cross the road safely. Experiences teach too: «That will teach you to leave your bike outside!» means you learned the hard way. In stories a wise character teaches the hero.

### examples

- Mr Lee teaches maths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x1)
- Can you teach me how to tie my shoes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x2)
- Grandma taught me to bake bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x3)
- My aunt teaches at a high school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x4)
- Losing my phone taught me to be careful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x5)
- The lifeguard taught us water safety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x6)
- She is teaching her dog to sit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x7)
- I’m going to teach you now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/#x8)

### note

Irregular: teach, taught, taught (not «teached»). «Taught» sounds like «taut». Teach someone something / teach someone to do something. Do not mix up «teach» and «learn»: the teacher teaches, the pupil learns («He learned me» is wrong; say «He taught me»).

### In the corpora

- [Banks offer children's accounts to keep savings safe and teach how banks work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/19/)
- [Shouting would only teach a child to hide things, so good parents try hard not to.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/11/)
- [Use what they taught you to help people understand, check and learn, honestly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/30-who-you-are-what-you-will-do/12/)
- [Jane Goodall spent her life protecting chimps and teaching children about nature, until she died in 2025.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/6/)
- [And I'll teach you to row, and to swim». («stop with me» = stay with me)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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