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Meaning learn meaning

What does learn mean?
Definitions in simple English

learn Verb

— When you learn something, you start to know how to do things that you didn't know before. I'm going to learn English! Martha is learning to play the piano. — When you learn something, you start to know something that you didn't know before. I've just learned that I've been adopted. — When you learn, you start to know more than you knew before. You have to learn from your own mistakes.

learn

— verb (= acquire) gain knowledge or skills She learned dancing from her sister I learned Sanskrit Children acquire language at an amazing rate — verb (= see) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally I learned that she has two grown-up children I see that you have been promoted — verb (= memorize, memorise) commit to memory; learn by heart Have you memorized your lines for the play yet? — verb (= read) be a student of a certain subject She is reading for the bar exam — verb (= teach, instruct) impart skills or knowledge to I taught them French He instructed me in building a boat — verb (= determine, check, find out, see) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort I want to see whether she speaks French See whether it works find out if he speaks Russian Check whether the train leaves on time

Synonyms learn synonyms

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Topics learn topics

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Conjugation learn conjugation

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Examples learn examples

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Simple sentences

I thought you liked to learn new things.
You'd be surprised what you can learn in a week.
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
You'll learn how to do it sooner or later.
You must learn to obey instructions.
What do you learn?
What do you learn English for?
English is difficult to learn.
What do you learn Spanish for?
You cannot learn such a thing too soon.
That is to say, a language is something that we learn and are taught, not something that we know by instinct.
The students were told to learn the poem by heart.
Everyone must learn on their own in the end.
There will always be things I will never learn, I don't have eternity before me!
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.
The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.
We must learn to meet adversity gracefully.
It is never too late to learn.
You're never too old to learn.
One is never too old to learn.
No one is too old to learn.
No man is so old he cannot learn.
No one is so old but he can learn.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
You have to learn standard English.
You should learn how to use your dictionary.
You should learn to restrain yourself.

Movie subtitles

Yes, yep, they're completely into the teachings and ready to learn more.
See, they all really wanted to learn.
Did you learn that in school?
I do want to duet again, but first I need to heal up and learn some submission moves.
It takes her longer, but she has to learn.
They help the children learn to balance, don't they?
You learn new things all the time when you're in this wretched club.
It's a chance to practise our public speaking and learn new things.
No, I-I get it, but you need to learn to channel some of that anger into the work.
You can't learn it. You're born with it.
Where'd you learn to cook like this?
And it would be of great benefit to a man like yourself, a man who needs to learn to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
A story told by the elders, while the younger generation never seems to have time to learn.
Maybe I'll learn something.
I need to learn Arabic too.
Look about you - try to learn where he keeps the keys.
ProIetarian, learn to use the rifle!
After 5 years in prison, you learn a thing or two.
He'll learn.
You may as well learn now.
That's the way to learn.
You better learn to write, Johnny, so you can send me some letters.
I really ought to learn to dance.
Yes, you should learn as quickly as the time allows.
If icky baby don't learn about the football signals, icky baby gonna cry.
When are you gonna learn that I am the boss?
Where did you learn how to do this?
You can't learn it.
I managed to learn that the suspects will meet tonight at Gourdan's home to devise plans against the countess.
I will take you to some places in Vienna where you can learn what these women are like.
No, but I'd love to learn.
What do you wanna learn that stuff for?
The young men thought I was a coward because I told them that. we learn that death is stronger than duty to one's country.

News and current affairs

It is not too late to learn the lessons of the misadventures of A. Q. Khan.
Keynes was an optimist in believing that governments could learn to manage the business cycle.
Now that the worst has, indeed, proven true, Ethiopia and all of East Africa will need to learn to live without the stabilizing influence of its great dictator-diplomat.
Without the ability to go overseas, we cannot learn.
But my hope is still to go abroad, learn skills, and return to help others here.
I ask myself why they have the opportunity to travel, to study, to take vacations, when I cannot go abroad even to learn medicine.
Time and again, people seek to learn the truth about Romania's past.
Humanity needs to learn new ways to produce and use low-carbon energy, grow food sustainably, build livable cities, and manage the global commons of oceans, biodiversity, and the atmosphere.
Now that many European nations have become increasingly mixed in terms of ethnicity and culture, the only way forward is to learn to live together.
But it will have to learn to work with other countries to share leadership.
Studies of fear in rats have helped us learn much here.
A rat's amygdala responds to natural dangers (rats fear cats without having to learn to do so) and learns about new dangers (sounds, sights and smells that occur in anticipation of cats and other threats).
As we learn more, we may begin to figure out how to better treat - and even prevent - these conditions.
Led by a literary scholar and an astronomer, this new residential college aims to break down interdisciplinary boundaries and enable students to learn from one another.
Unfortunately, the world has failed to learn the lessons of Japan.
Countries must learn to work together to achieve these goals, few of which can be reached by going it alone.
Similarly, a few years ago, the world was shocked to learn that famous Italian writer Ignazio Silone had, in his youth, collaborated with the fascist police.
The US might also learn from other examples.
The smart and friendly teenagers were eager to learn how to surf the Internet, just installed in their school.
But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.
As investors learn more about Africa, they will increasingly see what it has to offer.
They will become familiar with the technology and learn how to maintain consistent quality in the production line.
We learn about all this at the same time as we are told about Father Christmas, his Lapland reindeers, and his sacks full of presents.

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