# Tiến hành / thực hiện: carry out in Vietnamese (B2)

> Tiến hành (carry out, conduct) and thực hiện (carry out, implement) put a formal frame round an action.

Source: https://vietnamesebuddy.com/grammar/tien-hanh/ · Updated 2026-10-17

**carry out**

Pattern: `tiến hành / thực hiện + [verb or noun]`

Level: B2 (our estimate) · Register: formal

Typed without accents: tien hanh, thuc hien

*Tiến hành* (carry out, conduct) and *thực hiện* (carry out, implement) put a formal frame round an action. They go before another verb or a noun for an activity: *Cảnh sát đã tiến hành kiểm tra.* The police carried out an inspection. Literally that's "proceeded to inspect"; the meaning is simply "inspected", put in an official way.

*Tiến hành* is about starting and conducting an activity, often one with several steps: *tiến hành điều tra* (conduct an investigation), *tiến hành khảo sát* (carry out a survey), *tiến hành phẫu thuật* (perform surgery). In the methods section of a paper it's standard: *Nghiên cứu được tiến hành tại ba tỉnh.* The study was conducted in three provinces.

*Thực hiện* is about carrying through something planned or required: a plan, a policy, a project, a duty, a procedure. *Thực hiện dự án*, *thực hiện chính sách*, *thực hiện nghĩa vụ*. It's also the word for "made by" in news credits: *Bài viết do nhóm phóng viên thực hiện.* Report by our team of reporters.

Both often appear with *được* for a passive, and with *do* to name who did it: *do Viện Dinh dưỡng thực hiện* (carried out by the Nutrition Institute).

You meet them in news, police and parliament reports, and papers. In conversation, drop them and use the plain verb: *Công an kiểm tra rồi.* The police have checked. In a chat, *tiến hành* sounds like a press release.

## Examples

- Đoàn kiểm tra đã tiến hành lấy mẫu tại 12 cơ sở sản xuất thực phẩm. — The inspection team took samples at 12 food production facilities.
- Nghiên cứu được tiến hành tại ba bệnh viện ở Cần Thơ từ tháng 1 đến tháng 6/2026. — The study was conducted at three hospitals in Cần Thơ from January to June 2026.
- Thành phố đang thực hiện dự án cải tạo hệ thống thoát nước ở khu trung tâm. — The city is carrying out a project to upgrade the drainage system in the centre.
- Khảo sát do sinh viên Khoa Xã hội học thực hiện với 500 người tham gia. — The survey was carried out by sociology students, with 500 participants.

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