apprendre
French
Etymology
From Middle French apprendre, from Old French aprendre, aprandre, inherited from Latin apprendere, contracted form of apprehendere, present active infinitive of apprehendō. Doublet of appréhender, which was borrowed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pʁɑ̃dʁ/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃dʁ
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.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 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)
| present participle | apprenant /a.pʁə.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | appris /a.pʁi/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | apprendre | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | apprenant /a.pʁə.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | appris /a.pʁi/ |
appris /a.pʁi/ |
apprit /a.pʁi/ |
apprîmes /a.pʁim/ |
apprîtes /a.pʁit/ |
apprirent /a.pʁiʁ/ | |
| 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/ | |
| 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | apprenne /a.pʁɛn/ |
apprennes /a.pʁɛn/ |
apprenne /a.pʁɛn/ |
apprenions /a.pʁə.njɔ̃/ |
appreniez /a.pʁə.nje/ |
apprennent /a.pʁɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | apprisse /a.pʁis/ |
apprisses /a.pʁis/ |
apprît /a.pʁi/ |
apprissions /a.pʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
apprissiez /a.pʁi.sje/ |
apprissent /a.pʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | apprends /a.pʁɑ̃/ |
— | apprenons /a.pʁə.nɔ̃/ |
apprenez /a.pʁə.ne/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- apprenable
- apprendre par cœur ("to memorize")
Related terms
Further reading
- “apprendre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French aprandre, aprendre, from Latin apprendere, variant of apprehendere, present active infinitive of apprehendō (“grasp, understand, comprehend”).
Derived terms
- apprendre par tchoeu (“to learn by heart”)
Related terms
- êtudier (“to study”)
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