instruir

Senses

1. 1.

   to instruct, to teach

   to provide knowledge or information to someone; to educate

2. 2.

   to train, to prepare

   to prepare someone for a specific task or role through teaching

3. 3.

   to inform, to brief

   to give someone detailed information or directions about something

4. 4.

   to prepare (legal)

   to gather and organize evidence and documents for a legal case

Examples

• "O professor instruiu os alunos sobre as regras de segurança no laboratório."

  The teacher instructed the students about the safety rules in the laboratory.

• "É importante instruir as crianças desde cedo sobre educação financeira."

  It's important to educate children from an early age about financial literacy.

• "O advogado está instruindo o processo com novos documentos."

  The lawyer is preparing the case with new documents.

Usage

Formal register, commonly used in educational, legal, and professional contexts. Often followed by prepositions "sobre" (about) or "em" (in/on). The legal sense "instruir um processo" is a fixed collocation meaning to build/prepare a legal case.