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# learn

«learn» in Mova's school dictionary: **to come to know something new, or to get a new skill:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (learn, learns, learned/learnt, learning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To learn is to come to know something new, or to get a new skill: learn to swim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#m1)

2) To learn something by heart is to remember it word for word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#m2)

3) To learn about something is to find out about it: we learned about volcanoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#m3)

4) Learned (as an adjective) means having much knowledge gained from study and reading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

what earlier lessons taught («revision of what we learned before»); in class «Today we learn to divide»; in science «learn how plants grow»; in everyday life learning to ride a bike, to read, from mistakes

### examples

- First, a little revision of what we learned before … [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x1)
- Today we learn to divide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x2)
- Ella learns 4 new words each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x3)
- I learned to ride my bike last summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x4)
- We are learning about the solar system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x5)
- Learn your times tables by heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x6)
- We learn from our mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x7)
- My dog learned a new trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/#x8)

### note

No operation clue. Trap: «learns 4 new words each day» for some days hides equal groups: multiply. Past «learned» (US, also UK) or «learnt» (UK). «learn» is what the pupil does; «teach» is what the teacher does: say «teach me», not «learn me».

### In the corpora

- [Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all at once, so people come home tired.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/18/)
- [Staying up too late makes adults tired the next day, and children's sleep matters even more for growing and learning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/17/)
- [AI "tasted" millions of sentences or pictures in the same way and learned what usually goes together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/2/)
- [AI programs learn patterns from very large numbers of examples, such as sentences or photos.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/6/)
- [An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «learn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/learn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.