leren

• leeren

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːrə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: le‧ren
• Rhymes: -eːrən

From Middle Dutch leren, from Old Dutch lēren, from Proto-West Germanic *laiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *laizijaną.

leren

1. (transitive, intransitive) to learn, to study
2. (transitive) to teach

• (to learn): studeren, kennis opdoen, oppikken, opsteken, blokken (informal)
• (to teach): aanleren, onderwijzen

• (antonym(s) of “to learn”): afleren (“to unlearn”), vergeten (“to forget”)
• (antonym(s) of “to teach”): afleren (“to correct (a bad habit)”)

• Afrikaans: leer
• Berbice Creole Dutch: lere
• Negerhollands: leer, le, lie
• Skepi Creole Dutch: lear, lair
• → Saramaccan: léi, leren
• → Sranan Tongo: leri

leren

1. plural of leer

Contraction of lederen, from Middle Dutch lederijn, lederen (but also already leren). Equivalent to leer +‎ -en.

• lederen (somewhat archaic)

leren (not comparable)

1. made of leather

leren

1. inflection of ler:
   1. third-person plural future subjunctive
   2. third-person plural personal infinitive

From Old Dutch lēren

lêren

1. to learn
2. to teach
3. to tell

• Dutch: leren
• Limburgish: lieëre

• “leren (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “leren (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old English lǣran (“to teach”); see learn (“teach”) (etymology 2) for more.

leren

1. to teach or instruct
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, from The Canterbury Tales,

     He hath take on him many a great emprise,
     Which were full hard for any that is here
     To bring about, but they of him it lear.

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2. to guide or lead

From Proto-West Germanic *laiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *laizijaną.

lēren

1. to learn
2. to teach

• Middle Dutch: lêren
  • Dutch: leren
  • Limburgish: lieëre

• “lēren”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *laiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *laizijaną, from *laizō (“lore”).

Akin to Old Saxon lērian, Old Dutch lēren, Old English lǣran, Old Norse læra, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (laisjan).

lēren

1. to teach

• Middle High German: lēren
  • Alemannic German:

    Italian Walser: lére, leire, lerä

  • German: lehren
  • Luxembourgish: léieren

• lernēn