teach
To help someone learn something by explaining or showing them.
To help someone learn a subject, skill, or behavior by explaining or showing how to do it.
To show someone how to do something by doing it or explaining it.
To demonstrate or guide someone in performing a task or activity by example or instruction.
To make someone understand something important, often after something happens.
To make someone realize or learn something, often as a result of an experience or consequence.
- Base: teach
- 3rd Person Singular: teaches
- Present Participle: teaching
- Past: taught
- Past Participle: taught
- Irregular past: taught Verb
- Irregular past participle: taught Verb
teach oneself
1Learn without a teacher
To learn something by yourself, without a teacher.
- He taught himself to play piano by watching videos online.
- I taught myself Spanish using free apps.
teach the ropes
1Show basic skills for job/task
To show someone the basic things they need to know for a job or activity.
- On my first day, my coworker taught me the ropes.
- She will teach you the ropes so you can start working right away.
teach someone a lesson
1Make someone change via consequences
To make someone suffer or have problems so they will not do something bad again.
- The defeat taught the team a lesson about overconfidence.
- The coach made them run extra laps to teach them a lesson about punctuality.
- She refused to help him, hoping it would teach him a lesson.
- He was taught a lesson when his prank backfired.