Participles
| Present | leorniende |
| Past | (ġe)leornod |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | leorniġe |
| 2nd sing. | leornast |
| 3rd sing. | leornaþ |
| 1st plur. | leorniaþ |
| 2nd plur. | leorniaþ |
| 3rd plur. | leorniaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | leornode |
| 2nd sing. | leornodest |
| 3rd sing. | leornode |
| 1st plur. | leornodon |
| 2nd plur. | leornodon |
| 3rd plur. | leornodon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | leorniġe |
| 2nd sing. | leorniġe |
| 3rd sing. | leorniġe |
| 1st plur. | leorniġen |
| 2nd plur. | leorniġen |
| 3rd plur. | leorniġen |
Past
| 1st sing. | leornode |
| 2nd sing. | leornode |
| 3rd sing. | leornode |
| 1st plur. | leornoden |
| 2nd plur. | leornoden |
| 3rd plur. | leornoden |
Imperative
| Singular | leorna |
| Plural | leorniaþ |
Verbs conjugated like 'leornian'
cnossian,
hwisprian,
hwistlian,
sagian,
sacian,
sadian,
solian,
siwian,
sipian,
yrsian,
myrþrian,
fuglian,
fundian,
fulwian,
fullian,
leornian,
borcian,
borgian,
beorhtian,
wohhian, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'leornian'
beornan,
ceorian,
ceorlian,
deorcian,
earnian,
feormian,
feorsian,
geornan,
gnornian,
heorcnian,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn, from Proto-Germanic *lizaną. Cognate with Old Frisian lirnia, Old Saxon līnon, and Old High German lernēn. Related to lǣran and lār. See: Proto-Germanic '
*lizaną', Old Frisian 'lirnia'.
Verbs referencing "leornian"
English
learn, Scots
learn, German, old spelling
lernen, Ido lernar, Old Saxon
linon, Bavarian learna.
Sample Sentences
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Ǣlċe dæġe iċ leorniġe mā be þisse mǣran byrġ. (Every day I learn more about this great city.)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Mark, Evangelist"
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Ne ge-seah he crist on life ac he leornode swaðeah of petres bodunge hu he ða boc gesette... (He never saw Christ in life, but he learned, nevertheless, from Peter's preaching, how he should write the book,...)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilius, Bishop"
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His fæder and his frynd hine befæstan to lare, to woruldwisdom, ða þa he syfon wyntre wæs, forþan þe on þam timan ne teah nan æðelborennysse nænne man to wurðscype, butan he wisdom ær ðam lange leornode æt gelæredum uðwytum. (His father and his friends committed him to learning and to worldly wisdom when he was seven years [old], because at that time no nobility exalted any man to honour, unless he had learned wisdom for a long time beforehand of learned philosophers.)
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
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Þā hē þās bōc hæfde ġeleornode and of Lǣdene tō Engliscum spelle ġewende, þā ġeworhte hē hīe eft tō lēoðe. (When King Alfred had studied this book and translated it from Latin verse into English prose, he converted it back into verse.)
Cognates
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