Questions & Answers about Đội tiến lên.
Here, đội is a noun, meaning something like team, unit, squad, or troop, depending on context.
A common point of confusion is that đội can also be a verb meaning to wear on the head or to put on something like a hat or helmet. But in Đội tiến lên, that meaning does not fit. Here, it is clearly the noun.
Tiến lên is a verb phrase meaning to advance, move forward, or go onward.
- tiến = to advance, proceed
- lên = up, upward, onward, forward in many combinations
Together, they often express the idea of moving ahead physically or figuratively.
So even though lên often means up, in this phrase you should understand tiến lên as a natural unit meaning advance / move forward.
It is written as two words: tiến + lên.
Vietnamese often uses combinations like this, where a main verb is followed by another element that adds direction or nuance. In this sentence:
- tiến is the main action
- lên adds a sense of onward/upward movement
English learners sometimes want to treat the whole thing as a single dictionary word, but it is better to think of it as a verb phrase.