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i have learnt vs i had learnt

Both phrases are correct, but their verb tenses are different. 'I have learnt' refers to something you have learned up to the present moment, indicating the present perfect tense. 'I had learnt' refers to something you had learned in the past, indicating the past perfect tense.
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Last updated: September 12, 2024

i have learnt

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate learning that has happened up to the present moment.

Use 'I have learnt' when you want to talk about something you have learned up to the present moment. It is in the present perfect tense.

Examples:

  • I have learnt a lot from my mistakes.
  • She has learnt how to play the piano.
  • I have learnt so many things, Father.
  • At teenager, that's the only thing I have learnt.
  • I have learnt from meetings with numerous industry representatives and other stakeholders that many countries, and also many companies, already have in place excellent systems which would fulfil most, if not all, requirements of the due-diligence system.
  • The lesson that I have learnt and that I wanted to stress in this resolution was that impunity is not an answer.
  • I have learnt two main lessons from this crisis.
  • I would like to ask the Commission - and this is one of the lessons which I have learnt from this - to acknowledge that the more consistent the Commission's actions are, the faster we will have improved results.
  • But I have learnt many things in the darkness, and one of them is this - I cannot do this alone.
  • I have learnt one thing, Vanessa... that living here can only protect you from so much.
  • I have learnt in police that if you strike to the head an old man with the just angle, his skull practically pulverises.
  • I have learnt that real speed cannot be perceived
  • The lessons I have learnt throughout this process are that we need better budgeting and improved planning processes.
  • One thing I have learnt is that people soon learn how to abuse and get round these systems.
  • Another important lesson I have learnt is that personal experience of such disasters is worth a multitude of television documentaries.
  • I have learnt a lot this evening, including the point Mr Mulder made about Edam cheese.
  • Where Europe is concerned, I am wary of simplification, because I have learnt that complexity is not necessarily synonymous with complication and that we sometimes make things more complex when we seek to simplify them.
  • Master, I have learnt to run faster than time itself
  • Ladies and gentlemen, I am 56 years old and my journey has been long and difficult, but I have learnt that what does not kill you makes you stronger.
  • I have learnt a great deal, I am much more knowledgeable now, and I thank you for allowing me to participate in your debate.
  • This is what I have learnt from the history of my parents' and grandparents' generations and also of my own.
  • I have learnt a lot from everybody, I would urge you all to continue fighting for an increasingly democratic and fair Europe of solidarity, which is able to overcome the crises that arise.

Alternatives:

  • I have learned
  • I've learned
  • I've learnt
  • I have acquired knowledge

i had learnt

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate learning that had happened in the past, before another point in the past.

Use 'I had learnt' when you want to talk about something you had learned in the past, indicating a past perfect tense.

Examples:

  • By the time I arrived, I had learnt all the vocabulary words.
  • I had learnt to swim when I was a child.
  • I had learnt he enjoyed playing chess and listening to music there
  • I had learnt he enjoyed playing chess and listening to music there
  • And if I had ever learnt, I should be a true proficient.
  • When I was a kid, I hadn't quite learnt to swim yet.
  • Get this... the dogs had learnt to travel on the subway.
  • Laing had learnt about Game Theory when he visited the mental research institute at Palo Alto in California.
  • Once shepherds had learnt to build more weather-proof and spacious dwellings, the production of parenica also began on highland sheep farms.
  • The moral of the story is that they had learnt nothing from history.
  • The Berlin Wall would have fallen sooner if we had learnt Western languages back in the 1960s or 1980s.
  • He said that the lessons the EU had learnt in recent years had helped improve the quality of the European statistical system greatly.
  • To put it another way, your are like those immigrants in early nineteenth century France who had learnt nothing, understood nothing.
  • 'Aisha had learnt how to play guitar from him.'
  • This gave rise to considerable controversy at the time, and rightly so, because it raised questions such as whether lawyers would have to disclose confidential information they had learnt from their clients.
  • All of which you could just as easily give up, if you had learnt something useful or if you had jobs or if you weren't such lazy pigs.
  • Initially after Fukushima, you moved in the right direction and set yourself objectives which included a comprehensive, in-depth investigation of all the risks presented by European nuclear power stations on the basis of what we had learnt at the time from Fukushima.
  • He spoke out in these terms, in statements to Europa Press, after he had learnt that the Unesco experts' report recommends a change to the tunnel route in the vicinity of the Sagrada Familia and La Pedrera.
  • I have learnt some very distressing news...
  • I learnt the guitar watching adults.
  • Just when you learnt to live without it.
  • I learnt that immortality is unendurable alone.

Alternatives:

  • I had learned
  • I'd learned
  • I'd learnt
  • I had acquired knowledge

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