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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.
educator
A Lehrerin and an Erzieherin both work professionally with children and support their development. A Lehrerin mainly teaches at a school or educational institution and imparts knowledge; an Erzieherin typically cares for and supports children in a kindergarten, daycare center, or after-school care program.
Als Lehrerin erklärt Frau Sommer den Kindern in der Schule das Rechnen.
As a teacher, Ms. Sommer explains arithmetic to the children at school.
Als Erzieherin betreut Frau Sommer die Kinder in der Kindertagesstätte.
As an educator, Ms. Sommer looks after the children at the daycare center.
