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learnt Chinese

learnt Chinese is the simple past and past participle of learn Chinese.

Meaning of learn Chinese

Verb

learn Chinese (third-person singular simple present learns Chinese, present participle learning Chinese, simple past and past participle learned Chinese or learnt Chinese)

  1. (derogatory, slang) To quit or transfer from a major professional sports league, suggesting a player does not deserve their current place.
    • Our best starting line up against 18th in League 1, we either win 5-0 or every single one of those players need to start learning Chinese.2024 January 7, @UTDTrey, Twitter
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see learn, Chinese.

Questions about learnt Chinese

What is learnt Chinese the simple past and past participle of?
Learnt Chinese is the simple past and past participle of learn Chinese.

Words near learnt Chinese in the dictionary

  1. learns the ropes
  2. learns to walk before one can run
  3. learnset
  4. learnsets
  5. learnt
  6. learnt Chinese
  7. learnt from experience
  8. learnt one's lesson
  9. learnt one's place
  10. learnt the hard way
  11. learnt the ropes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: learnt Chinese (page history and authors); learn Chinese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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