learn

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

apprendre

aprender

lernen

imparare

aprender

apprendere

aprendre

leren

étudier

estudiar

μαθαίνω

studiare

تعلم

disco

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɜːn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: lernen

Inherited from Old English: leornian

Cognate with German: lernen

Inherited from Middle English: leren

Inherited from Old English: lǣran

Cognate with Scots: lere

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: leere

Cognate with Western Frisian: leare

Cognate with Dutch: leren

Cognate with German: lehren

Cognate with Danish: lære

Cognate with Swedish: 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.

Sentences

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 .