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Scottish Posted 7 years ago
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Does "would" mean here "used to" in the sentence below ?

I used to spend hours learning songs on YouTube but would learn nothing.
  

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Scottish Does "would" mean here "used to" in the sentence below? I used to spend hours learning songs on YouTube but would learn nothing. Yes, though it's hard to see how you learned nothing when you just said you learned songs.

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Scottish Does "would" mean here "used to" in the sentence below?

I used to spend hours learning songs on YouTube but would learn nothing.

Yes, though it's hard to see how you learned nothing when you just said you learned songs.