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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishlernen(“to learn", also, "to teach"”), fromOld Englishleornian(“to learn", rarely also, "to teach”), fromProto-West Germanic*liʀnōn, fromProto-Germanic*lizaną, fromProto-Indo-European*(le-)lóys-e, stative from the root*leys-(“track, furrow, trace, trail”).

Cognate withOld Frisianlernia,lerna(“to learn”),Middle Low Germanlernen(“to learn", also, "to teach”),Middle Dutchleernen(“to learn", also, "to teach”) (whenceDutchlernen(“to study scripture”)),Germanlernen(“to learn”). See alsolore andlear.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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learn (third-person singular simple presentlearns,present participlelearning,simple past and past participlelearnedorlearnt)

  1. Toacquire, or attempt to acquireknowledge or an ability to do something.
    It's time Dadlearned (how) to change the oil in the car.
    In my latest job, I'velearnt to keep my mouth shut more than in the last one.
    Toddlerslearn to walk at around one year old.
    • 1782–1785,William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, inThe Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […],→OCLC:
      a school in which helearns sly circumvention
    • 1987 April 18, Tom Grabosky, “Gay Men's Voices Rise Up Singin'”, inGay Community News, page 7:
      I was very impressed with the obvious amount of work that went into thelearning and synchronization of such a complex and harmonically and difficult score.
    • 1988, Mark Andre Peter Loranc, “Acknowledgements”, inA Study of the Ionospheric Signature of Ion Supply from the Ionosphere to the Magnetosphere (PhD dissertation), University of Texas at Dallas, page iv:
      I havelearned far more from them about how to be a scientist than they realize. Above all else, they taught me the virtues of proper waterfowl alignment.
    • 2016,VOA Learning English (public domain)
      Every day Ilearn more about this great city.
    • 2019 December 15, Hugh Graham, Alice Hutton, “Milk or tea first? Charles's butlers have the answer”, inThe Sunday Times, number10,188, page 5:
      Other ruleslearnt by butlers include lighting candles 15 minutes before guests enter a room, and not saying "good morning" to guests until you are 5ft away.
  2. Toattend a course or othereducational activity.
  3. To gain knowledge from a badexperience so as toimprove.
    learn from one's mistakes
  4. Tostudy.
    Ilearn medicine.
    Theylearn psychology.
  5. To come toknow; to becomeinformed of; tofind out.
    He justlearned that he will be sacked.
  6. (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) Toteach.
    Give him a clip round the ear. That'lllearn him!

Usage notes

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  • The sense of "teach", once considered standard, fell into disfavour in the 18th century and is today deprecated in usage guides.

Conjugation

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Conjugation oflearn
infinitive(to)learn
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularlearnlearned
2nd-personsingularlearn,learnest†learned,learnedst†
3rd-personsingularlearns,learneth†learned
plurallearn
subjunctivelearnlearned
imperativelearn—
participleslearninglearned

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Translations

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to acquire knowledge or ability
to attend educational activity
to make use of a bad experience
to gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve
to be studying
to come to know; to become informed of; to find out
teach—seeteach
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Noun

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learn (plurallearns)

  1. The act of learning something.
    • 2003, Gregory A. Raymer,The Woodie Chronicles: My Journey Through America on the road t recovery in a 1949 Woodie Wagon:
      I did a quicklearn of the place by watching the people shuffle in. There was a healthy mix of beautiful and freaky people, who shared a few common denominators[…]

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References

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  1. ^Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957),English pronunciation 1500-1700‎[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology,Oxford:Clarendon Press, published1968,→OCLC,§ 8,page470: “Learn hasę̄ in Levins (besideĕ), Hart (besideĕ), Bullokar, and Cooper, andĕ in Robinson, Gil, Hodges, Poole, Coles, Brown, andRS.”.

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld High Germanlernēn,lirnēn, fromProto-West Germanic*liʀnēn. CompareGermanlernen,Englishlearn,Dutchleren,Danishlære.

Verb

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learn

  1. (Sappada, Sauris) tolearn

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Scots

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishleornian.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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learn (third-person singular simple presentlearns,present participlelearnin,simple pastlearnt,past participlelearnt)

  1. Tolearn.
  2. Toteach.
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