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american english - When do you use “learnt” and when “learned . . . You can use both and both are correct Speakers in North America and Canada use learned while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt Learned (but not learnt) is also an adjective When said of a person, it means ‘ having a lot of knowledge because you have studied and read a lot`
Can there be a difference between learned and learnt? To the best of my knowledge, there is no difference in meaning between learnt and the single-syllable form of learned This is supported by the answers to When do you use "learnt" and when "learned
Which is proper usage: What Ive Learned or What I learned? What I learned today was that I like asparagus What I learned during the 2 week course was invaluable whereas "what I've learned" is more general, or at least refers to a longer time period, eg : What I've learned in life is to avoid poisonous snakes What I've learned at college is that kids don't like to learn
So I have learned. - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 4 Yes, saying "So I have learned" (or, the more common "So I've learned"--thanks, Kate Bunting) is perfectly acceptable Thinking about what a person could infer from hearing someone say "So I've learned," I came to the conclusion that the person saying "So I've learned" is evincing a certain emotion that is hard to characterize
etymology - If its incorrect to learn someone, then why is learned . . . Learned is an adjective, and implies the past tense "He learned" is perfectly valid By using the word as an adjective "He is a learned man " It implies that He learned something at some point in the past Hence, the term: "a learned man" (The origin being something along the lines of: "a well-learned man" )
A learned scholar and the pronunciation of learned If the context is the same as where learnt would also apply (past tense of learn; acquired by study or experience) use the one-syllable pronunciation, and in other cases (having knowledge, scholarly, well-informed) use the two-syllable pronunciation