aprender

From Latin apprendere, alternative form of apprehendere, present active infinitive of apprehendō.

aprender

1. learn (to acquire knowledge or ability)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Galician-Portuguese aprender (13^th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin apprendere, alternative form of apprehendere, present active infinitive of apprehendō. Compare the borrowed doublet apreender.

• IPA^(key): [apɾenˈdeɾ]

aprender (first-person singular present aprendo, first-person singular preterite aprendín, past participle aprendido)

1. (transitive) to learn

   Synonym: deprender

2. (transitive) to teach

   O meu tío aprendeume a nadar. ― My uncle taught me to swim.

   Synonym: ensinar

• “aprender” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “aprender” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “aprender” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “aprender” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aprender” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Spanish, from Latin apprendere, alternative form of apprehendere, present active infinitive of apprehendō.

aprender (Latin spelling)

1. to learn

From Old Galician-Portuguese aprender, from Latin apprendere, alternative form of apprehendere. Compare the borrowed doublet apreender.

• Hyphenation: a‧pren‧der

aprender (first-person singular present aprendo, first-person singular preterite aprendi, past participle aprendido)

1. (transitive) to learn, to acquire knowledge

   Em dois anos, aprendi francês.

   In two years, I learned French.

2. (intransitive) to be able to learn

   Meu filho caçula aprende mais rápido que o irmão.

   My youngest son learns faster than his brother.

3. inflection of aprender:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aprender.

• aprendiz
• aprendizado
• aprendizagem

• prender

From Old Spanish aprender, from Latin apprēndere, from earlier apprehendere. Compare the borrowed doublet aprehender. Cognate with English apprehend.

• IPA^(key): /apɾenˈdeɾ/ [a.pɾẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧pren‧der

aprender (first-person singular present aprendo, first-person singular preterite aprendí, past participle aprendido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to learn (to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something)
2. (transitive, uncommon) to teach

• “aprender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014