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Originally Posted by stefanhendriks
ow, i see. So it is
to learn
he learnt
he has learned
meaning, learned is the 'completed' stage? learnt is "he just has learnt not/to do that"... right?
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No Stefan. In fact you can say "He has learnt English", which means that he has taken lessons and eventually passed and exam. And you can say "He is learned in English", and that means that he has a complete -or at least, if not complete, vast-knowlege in English.
So "he learnt" means that someone taught him and he accquired some of the lessons (enough to i.e pass an exam) while "he is learned" involves a profound knowledge in some field.
At least that's how I understand it. Just a subtle and probably useless difference and maybe it isn't worth the explanation :o