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apprendre
apprendre
French
Verb
apprendre
- to learn
- Grâce à vous, j'en apprends tous les jours. -Thanks to you, I learn every day.
- to teach
- Aujourd'hui je vais vous apprendre quelques mots hawaïens. -Today I am going to teach you some Hawaiian words.
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:
- À ces sottises, il en ajoutait cent autres, toutes à la manière de celles que ses livres lui avaient apprises, imitant de son mieux leur langage.
- To these foolish sayings, he added a hundred others, all in the manner of those that his books had taught him, imitating to the best of his ability their language.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated on the model of prendre. That means it is quite irregular, with the following patterns:
- In the infinitive, in the singular forms of the present indicative, and in the future and the conditional, it is conjugated like rendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs).
- In the plural forms of the present indicative and imperative, in the imperfect indicative, in the present subjunctive, and in the present participle, it is conjugated like appeler or jeter, using the stem apprenn- before mute ‘e’ and the stem appren- elsewhere.
- In the past participle, and in the past historic and the imperfect subjunctive, its conjugation resembles that of mettre.
Conjugation of apprendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | apprendre | avoir appris | |||||
| gerund | en apprenant | en ayant appris | |||||
| present participle | apprenant /a.pʁə.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | appris /a.pʁi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | apprends /a.pʁɑ̃/ |
apprends /a.pʁɑ̃/ |
apprend /a.pʁɑ̃/ |
apprenons /a.pʁə.nɔ̃/ |
apprenez /a.pʁə.ne/ |
apprennent /a.pʁɛn/ |
| imperfect | apprenais /a.pʁə.nɛ/ |
apprenais /a.pʁə.nɛ/ |
apprenait /a.pʁə.nɛ/ |
apprenions /a.pʁə.njɔ̃/ |
appreniez /a.pʁə.nje/ |
apprenaient /a.pʁə.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | appris /a.pʁi/ |
appris /a.pʁi/ |
apprit /a.pʁi/ |
apprîmes /a.pʁim/ |
apprîtes /a.pʁit/ |
apprirent /a.pʁiʁ/ |
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| future | apprendrai /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁe/ |
apprendras /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁa/ |
apprendra /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁa/ |
apprendrons /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
apprendrez /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁe/ |
apprendront /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | apprendrais /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
apprendrais /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
apprendrait /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
apprendrions /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
apprendriez /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
apprendraient /a.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | apprenne /a.pʁɛn/ |
apprennes /a.pʁɛn/ |
apprenne /a.pʁɛn/ |
apprenions /a.pʁə.njɔ̃/ |
appreniez /a.pʁə.nje/ |
apprennent /a.pʁɛn/ |
| imperfect1 |
apprisse /a.pʁis/ |
apprisses /a.pʁis/ |
apprît /a.pʁi/ |
apprissions /a.pʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
apprissiez /a.pʁi.sje/ |
apprissent /a.pʁis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | apprends /a.pʁɑ̃/ |
— | apprenons /a.pʁə.nɔ̃/ |
apprenez /a.pʁə.ne/ |
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Derived terms
- apprendre par cœur ("to memorize")