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learnt
[lurnt]
learnt
/ ɜːԳ /
verb
a past tense and past participle of learn
Example Sentences
"She never got any treatment for cancer – it was only after she died we learnt she had lung cancer."
sApp is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy, BBC News has learnt.
The government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learnt.
It was only a few days later - when a viral video surfaced of a Bangladeshi journalist interviewing Mr Islam in no man's land - that the family learnt where he was.
Years later she learnt that USB sticks and SD cards were being smuggled into the country inside boxes of fruit.
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When To Use
Learnt is a word. It is the simple past tense and the past participle of the verb learn. Learnt causes some confusion because learned is also a valid form for the past tense and past participle of learn. Learned is more commonly used than learnt.
's the past tense of learn?
The past tense of learn can be either learned or learnt, with learned being more common. For example:- Last night, she learned all her times tables by heart.
- Last night, she learnt her times tables by heart.
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