[
US
/ˈɫɝn/
]
[ UK /lˈɜːn/ ]
[ UK /lˈɜːn/ ]
VERB
-
impart skills or knowledge to
He instructed me in building a boat
I taught them French -
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
I see that you have been promoted
I learned that she has two grown-up children -
find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
Check whether the train leaves on time
See whether it works
I want to see whether she speaks French
find out if he speaks Russian -
gain knowledge or skills
She learned dancing from her sister
Children acquire language at an amazing rate
I learned Sanskrit -
commit to memory; learn by heart
Have you memorized your lines for the play yet? -
be a student of a certain subject
She is reading for the bar exam
How To Use learn In A Sentence
- It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing. Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
- You can't expect to learn a foreign language in a few months.
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- We learn a little more about how interconnected the world is. Times, Sunday Times
- It wasn't a bad program; with full profs as teachers, I read a lot and learned a lot.
- The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
- This research has done much to advance our understanding of language learning.
- I am eager to learn how to ride a bicycle.
