Learn

Definition

learn /lɜ:n / v ( pt, pp learnt /lɜ:nt / or learned / lɜ:nd / ) ၁။ ~ (sth) (from sb/sth) သင္ယူသည္။ ေလ့လာ သင္ၾကား သည္။ ေလ့က်က္သည္။ သင္ခန္းစာယူသည္။ learn a foreign language ❍ learn (how) to swim / to walk / to drive ❍ learn a poem by heart (ie from memory) ❍ learn from one’s mistakes ❍ I can’t drive yet– I’m still learning. ❍ You can learn a lot from books. ၂။ ~ (of/about) sth ၾကားရသည္။ သိရသည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ learn that it’s no use blaming other people ❍ learn what it means to be poor ❍ I was sorry to learn of / about your illness. ❍ I never learned the name of this flower. ၃။ ( sl or joc ) မွတ္ကေရာကြ။ That’ll learn you (eg said when punishing sb)! ❏ learned / 'lɜ:nÇd / adj ၁။ ပညာႀကီးေသာ။ သုတ ႂကြယ္ ေသာ။ စာေပႏွံ႔စပ္ေသာ။ a learned philosopher and theologian. ၂။ အတတ္ပညာရပ္ႏွင့္ ဆိုင္ေသာ။ ပညာရွင္မ်ား ႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ learned journals / societies ❍ the learned professions (eg law, medicine). ၃။ ( Brit law ) ဥပေဒ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ အခ်င္းခ်င္းေခၚေဝၚေသာ အာလုပ္စကား။ my learned friend. ❏ learner n ပညာသင္။ အသင္။ a quick / slow learner ❍ I’m still only a learner, so don’t expect too much. ❍ a learner driver. ❏ learning n [U] သညာ။ a woman of great learning. ❏ learn one’s lesson [ IDM ] တစ္ခါေသဖူး ပ်ဥ္ဖိုးနားလည္။ I’ll never do that again – I’ve learned my lesson!

Examples

1. A bright girl who is already learning the alphabet
2. What did you learn at school today?
3. Research into how children learn
4. We’re learning fractions in maths this week.
5. I’m learning a lot of new computer skills in this job.
6. [learn to do something] : The children are learning to swim this summer.
7. [learn how to do something] : I want to learn how to dive.
8. Your homework is to learn the periodic table.
9. [learn something by heart] : It didn’t take her long to learn her lines by heart.
10. [learn something by rote] : Facts learned by rote
11. Stereotypes that are learned at an early age
12. Children mainly learn by copying adults.
13. [learn (how) to do something] : You have to learn to be more patient.
14. She’ll go to great lengths to keep you from learning her secrets.
15. [learn about/of] : We didn’t learn about the situation until it was too late.
16. [learn (that)] : We were distressed to learn that American troops were the targets of the attack.
17. His girlfriend’s left him again. Some people never learn
18. do they?