learn

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
3. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
4. To study.
5. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
6. To teach.

Noun

The act of learning something.

Sinonieme

study

find out

understand

know

read

📖

teach

ascertain

hear

memorize

acquire knowledge

acquire

come to know

discover

see

👀

get to know

instruct

imitate

realize

perceive

larn

take

con

figure out

investigate

determine

pick up

memorise

practice

master

be informed

be trained

comprehend

be aware

get a line

find

🔍

exercise

take in

watch

⌚

read up

check

retain

smell

👃

hear of

practise

recognise

mug up

go to

get word

cram

get wind

Vertalings

apprendre

aprender

lernen

imparare

aprender

apprendere

aprendre

leren

étudier

estudiar

μαθαίνω

studiare

تعلم

disco

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/lɜːn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: lernen

Geërf van Old English: leornian

Verwante met Duits: lernen

Geërf van Middle English: leren

Geërf van Old English: lǣran

Verwante met Skots: lere

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: leere

Verwante met Fries: leare

Verwante met Nederlands: leren

Verwante met Duits: lehren

Verwante met Deens: lære

Verwante met Sweeds: lära

In summary

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”).
Cognate with Old Frisian lernia, lerna (“to learn”), Middle Low German lernen (“to learn", also, "to teach”), Middle Dutch leernen (“to learn", also, "to teach”) (whence Dutch lernen (“to study scripture”)), German lernen (“to learn”). See also lore and lear.

Sinne

I told him that was what I had come here to learn .

" How did you learn to read ?" the girl asked at one point .

I can learn something from the desert , too .

This helps pair programmers to learn to communicate more easily .