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تَعَلَّم
to learn /taˈʕal.lam/
verbA1#311 most common
Also: to study, to come to know, to find out
Example sentences
أَتَعَلَّمُ العَرَبِيَّةَ.
I am learning Arabic.
تَعَلَّمَ أَخِي السِّبَاحَةَ فِي الصَّيْفِ.
My brother learned to swim in the summer.
يَجِبُ أَنْ نَتَعَلَّمَ مِنْ أَخْطَائِنَا.
We must learn from our mistakes.
تَعَلَّمْتُ الكَثِيرَ خِلَالَ سَنَوَاتِ دِرَاسَتِي فِي الخَارِجِ.
I learned a lot during my years of study abroad.
مَنْ يَتَعَلَّمْ لُغَةً جَدِيدَةً يَكْتَشِفْ طَرِيقَةً جَدِيدَةً فِي التَّفْكِيرِ.
Whoever learns a new language discovers a new way of thinking.
لَمْ يَتَعَلَّمِ القَادَةُ مِنْ دُرُوسِ التَّارِيخِ، فَكَرَّرُوا الأَخْطَاءَ نَفْسَهَا.
The leaders did not learn from the lessons of history, so they repeated the same mistakes.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَتَعَلَّمُ | تَعَلَّمْتُ | سَأَتَعَلَّمُ |
| 2sg | تَتَعَلَّمُ | تَعَلَّمْتَ | سَتَتَعَلَّمُ |
| 3sg | يَتَعَلَّمُ | تَعَلَّمَ | سَيَتَعَلَّمُ |
| 1pl | نَتَعَلَّمُ | تَعَلَّمْنَا | سَنَتَعَلَّمُ |
| 2pl | تَتَعَلَّمُونَ | تَعَلَّمْتُمْ | سَتَتَعَلَّمُونَ |
| 3pl | يَتَعَلَّمُونَ | تَعَلَّمُوا | سَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ |
Word family
عَلَّمَto teach
عِلْمknowledge, scienceمُعَلِّمteacher
تَعْلِيمeducation, instructionعالِمscholar, scientistEtymology
تَعَلَّم is the Form V verb of the root ع-ل-م (ʿ-l-m), which carries the sense of knowing and marking. Form V (تَفَعَّل) is the reflexive of Form II عَلَّمَ, to teach, so the verb means roughly to bring knowledge to oneself. The same root gives عِلْم, knowledge, and عالِم, scholar.
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