Nous apprenons à secourir la victime.

Apprenons is the present tense of apprendre for nous.

In French, the present tense often covers both:

• we learn
• we are learning

So Nous apprenons à secourir la victime can mean either one, depending on context.

If French wants to stress that the action is happening right now, it can say:

• Nous sommes en train d’apprendre à secourir la victime.

But the simple present is very normal here.

Because apprendre à + infinitive means to learn to do something.

So:

• apprendre à secourir = to learn to rescue / help a victim

Compare:

• Nous apprenons le français. = We are learning French.
• Nous apprenons à nager. = We are learning to swim.

So the pattern is:

• apprendre + noun = learn something
• apprendre à + infinitive = learn to do something

Because apprendre is not completely regular in the present tense. Its stem changes a little.

Present tense:

• j’apprends
• tu apprends
• il / elle apprend
• nous apprenons
• vous apprenez
• ils / elles apprennent

So the singular forms use apprend-, while the plural forms use appren-.

That is why you get:

• nous apprenons not
• nous apprendons

Not exactly.

Secourir usually means to come to someone’s aid, especially in an emergency or dangerous situation. It often sounds a bit more formal or serious than aider.

Very roughly:

• aider = to help
• secourir = to rescue, assist, or come to the aid of
• sauver = to save

So secourir la victime suggests giving emergency help to a victim, which fits first-aid or rescue contexts very well.

Because secourir is a direct object verb.

You say:

• secourir quelqu’un
• secourir la victime

You do not say:

• secourir à quelqu’un

So in this sentence, la victime is the direct object of secourir.

Yes, victime is a grammatically feminine noun in French.

That means it takes:

• la victime
• une victime

This is true even if the victim is male.

For example:

• La victime est un homme.

So the word’s grammatical gender is feminine, but the real person can be male or female.

La usually points to a specific victim, or to the victim already understood in the situation.

So:

• la victime = the victim
• une victime = a victim

In a training or first-aid context, la victime is very natural because people often talk about the victim in a scenario, procedure, or demonstration.

If you said une victime, it would sound more like a victim in a more general or less specific sense.

Yes. In everyday spoken French, on often means we.

So these can both mean the same thing:

• Nous apprenons à secourir la victime.
• On apprend à secourir la victime.

The difference is mainly style:

• nous = a bit more formal, careful, or written
• on = very common in spoken French

Remember that on takes singular verb forms:

• On apprend not
• On apprennent

Yes, apprendre can mean both to learn and to teach, depending on the structure.

Examples:

• J’apprends le français. = I am learning French.
• J’apprends le français à mon frère. = I teach French to my brother.

In your sentence, Nous apprenons à secourir la victime, the structure apprendre à + infinitive clearly means to learn to do something.

So here it means we are learning to rescue / help the victim, not we are teaching.

Because after apprenons à, the second verb stays in the infinitive.

This is very common in French:

• apprendre à faire
• commencer à faire
• essayer de faire
• vouloir faire

So in:

• Nous apprenons à secourir la victime

the conjugated verb is apprenons, and secourir remains in the infinitive because it is the action being learned.

Yes.

French present tense is flexible. Depending on context, this sentence could mean:

• We are learning to help the victim right now
• We learn to help the victim as part of a course
• We’re learning how to help the victim

So the exact English translation depends on the situation, but the French sentence itself is completely natural for either an ongoing action or a general learning situation.