apprendre — meaning in English
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English meaning
- find out phrasal verb To learn something you did not previously know, either by asking, checking or discovering it by chance.
- hear verb To perceive sound through the ears.
- instruct verb To teach someone a skill or subject.
- learn verb To gain knowledge or a skill through study, practice, or experience.
- teach verb To help someone learn a skill or subject by explaining or demonstrating it.
Senses
apprendre is used for these senses in English:
- find out (transitive) To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.
- hear (transitive) To receive information about; to come to learn of. [from 10th c.]
- instruct (transitive) To teach by giving instructions.
- learn To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- learn To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- learn To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
find out — full definition
- phrasal verb To learn something you did not previously know, either by asking, checking or discovering it by chance.
- phrasal verb To detect someone in a lie, crime or deception, so that their behaviour becomes known.
hear — full definition
- verb To perceive sound through the ears.
- verb To receive news or information about something.
- verb To listen to and formally consider a case in a court of law.