LEARNit Dictionary
learn
verb
/lɜːn/
UK
/lɜːrn/
US
A1
OPAL
1
A1
to gain knowledge or skill by studying, from experience, from being taught, etc.
یاد گرفتن, فرا گرفتن, آموختن
2
A1
to study and repeat something in order to be able to remember it
یاد گرفتن, آموختن, فرا گرفتن, فراگیری, حفظ کردن
I
learnt
the poem
by heart
.
We have to learn one of Hamlet's speeches for school tomorrow.
You'll have to learn your lines by next week.
synonym
memorize
3
A2
to gradually change your attitudes about something so that you behave in a different way
یاد گرفتن (مجازاً تحول فکری), تغییر نگرش, تحول فکری کردن
Some people never learn, do they?
I'm sure she'll
learn from her mistakes
.
Why do people so often fail to
learn from experience
?
He’ll just have to learn (that) he can’t always have his own way.
They soon learn that bad behaviour is a sure-fire way of getting attention.
They soon
learned to love
living in the countryside.
I soon learned not to ask too many questions.
4
B1
to become aware of something by hearing about it from somebody else
آگاه شدن, باخبر شدن, دریافتن
I first learnt of his death many years later.
We only learned about the problems in May of this year.
We were very
surprised to learn (that)
she had got married again.
We only learned who the new teacher was a few days ago.
How did they react when they learned the news?
It has been learned that 500 jobs are to be lost at the factory.
synonym
discover