learn
//lɜːn//
Forms
- present (v1)
- learn
- past (v2)
- learned
- past participle (v3)
- learned
- present participle
- learning
- 3rd person singular
- learns
- Plural
- learns
Definitions
1.To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- Every day I learn more about this great city.
- Toddlers learn to walk at around one year old.
- It's time Dad learned (how) to change the oil in the car.
2.To attend a course or other educational activity.
- For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
3.To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- I've still got a lot to learn.
- Honestly, I also want to learn Japanese.
- I think everybody should learn another language.
4.To study.
- I've still got a lot to learn.
- Honestly, I also want to learn Japanese.
- I think everybody should learn another language.
1.The act of learning something.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #322
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English lernen (“to learn", also, "to teach"”), from Old English leornian (“to learn", rarely also, "to teach”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn, from Proto-Germanic *lizaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(le-)lóys-e, stative from the root *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”).