learn to walk before one can run
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
40
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see learn, walk, before, run.
Example Sentences
- "Optimal performances can also be used as platforms for achieving greater things in performance later. You might think of optimal performance as learning to walk before you can run or learning the arias before the whole role or running many ten-kilometer races before you try to run a marathon."
- "Our mathematics education —particularly our arithmetic education— began with the least important numbers and worked through the years to get us to the more important ones. I guess that follows the theory of having to learn to walk before you can run and defers to the lower capacity of the young child's mind to grasp more complex models."
Inflected Forms
learns to walk before one can run (present, singular)
learning to walk before one can run (participle, present)
learned to walk before one could run (participle, past)
learned to walk before one could run (past)
learnt to walk before one could run (participle, past)
learnt to walk before one could run (past)
know how to walk before one can run (alternative)