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female teacher
A woman who teaches professionally at a school or another educational institution and imparts knowledge.
Meine Deutschlehrerin hat mir sehr geholfen, die Grammatik zu verstehen.
My German teacher helped me a lot with understanding the grammar.
The word is the feminine form of 'der Lehrer' (the male teacher). The ending '-in' is used by default in German to derive feminine occupational or personal nouns from the masculine form.
Aus dem „Bäcker“ wird „die Bäckerin“, aus dem „Arzt“ wird „die Ärztin“.
'Bäcker' (baker) becomes 'die Bäckerin' (female baker), and 'Arzt' (doctor) becomes 'die Ärztin' (female doctor).
'Lehrerin' (female teacher) belongs to the word family of the verb 'lehren' (to teach, to teach someone something). The noun 'die Lehre' (training/apprenticeship or a philosophical doctrine) is also part of this family.
Eine gute Lehrerin kann komplexe Inhalte verständlich lehren.
A good teacher can teach complex content in an understandable way.
To name the subject or the school, fixed prepositions are used: someone is 'Lehrerin für' (teacher of/for) a subject and 'Lehrerin an' (teacher at) a school.
Sie ist Lehrerin für Englisch an einem Gymnasium.
She is an English teacher at a Gymnasium.
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'der Lehrer' and 'die Lehrerin' both mean a person who teaches professionally and passes on knowledge. The most important difference is gender: 'der Lehrer' is used for a man, and 'die Lehrerin' for a woman. The words can be confused because both have the same role at school or in courses. If the gender is known and important, choose the matching form.
Die Lehrerin erklärt der Klasse die Aufgabe noch einmal.
The teacher explains the task to the class once more.
Herr Schneider ist der neue Lehrer für Mathematik.
Mr. Schneider is the new math teacher.