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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic kná (“to know, know how to, be able”).
Pronunciation [edit]
know (third-person singular simple present knows, present participle knowing, simple past knew or knowed (dialect), past participle known, knowen (archaic), or knowed (dialect))
- (transitive) To be certain or sure about.
- I know that I’m right and you’re wrong.
- He knew something terrible was going to happen.
- (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
- I know your mother, but I’ve never met your father.
- (transitive, also intransitive followed by about or, dialectally, from) To have knowledge of; to have memorised information, data, or facts about.
- He knows more about 19th century politics than one would expect.
- She knows where I live.
- Let me do it. I know how it works.
- You people don't know from funny.
- (transitive) To understand (a subject).
- She knows chemistry better than anybody else.
- (transitive) To be informed about.
- Do you know that Michelle and Jack are getting divorced? ― Yes, I know.
- (transitive) To experience.
- Their relationship knew ups and downs.
- (transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with.
Usage notes [edit]
The dialect verb form is inflected in a non-standard way. In addition the different simple past and past, the form knows is used for both the singular and plural of all persons of the present tense: "I knows", "you knows", "he knows", "we knows", "you knows", and "they knows".
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be certain or sure about (something)
- Afrikaans: weet (af)
- Albanian: di (sq)
- American Sign Language: BentB@Sfhead
- Arabic: عرف (ar) (ʿárafa), imperfect: يعرف (ar) (yaʿrifu)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: գիտենալ (hy) (gitenal), իմանալ (hy) (imanal)
- Aromanian: shciu (rup)
- Asturian: saber (ast)
- Azeri: bilmək (az)
- Bakhtiari: دونستن (dõwesten)
- Basque: jakin (eu), jakina izan (eu)
- Belarusian: ведаць (be) (védac’), знаць (be) (znac’)
- Breton: gouzout (br)
- Bulgarian: зная (bg) (znája)
- Burmese: သိရှိ (my) (thi.shi.)
- Catalan: saber (ca)
- Cebuano: kahibalo
- Chinese:
- Dungan: җы
- Mandarin: 知道 (cmn) (zhīdao), 曉得 (cmn), 晓得 (cmn) (xiǎode)
- Min Nan: 知影 (nan) (chai-iáⁿ), 會曉 (nan) (ē-hiáu), 明白 (nan) (bîng-pi̍k)
- Cornish:
- Kernewek Kemmyn: godhvos
- Czech: vědět (cs)
- Dalmatian: sapar
- Danish: vide (da)
- Dutch: weten (nl)
- Esperanto: scii (eo)
- Estonian: teadma (et)
- Faroese: vita (fo)
- Finnish: tietää (fi)
- French: savoir (fr)
- Friulian: savê
- Galician: saber (gl)
- Georgian: ცოდნა (ka) (c'odna)
- German: wissen (de)
- Greek: ξέρω (el) (xéro)
- Ancient: γιγνώσκω (gignósko)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Haitian Creole: konnen
- Hawaiian: ʻike
- Hebrew: ידע (he) (yadá)
- Hindi: जानना (hi) (jānnā)
- Hungarian: tud (hu)
- Icelandic: vita (is)
- Ido: savar (io)
- Indonesian: tahu (id)
- Irish: a fhios a bheith agat (ga)
- Italian: sapere (it)
- Japanese: 知る (ja) (しる, shiru), 確信している (ja) (かくしんしている, kakushin-shite iru), ご存知である (ja) (ごぞんじである, gozonji-dearu) (honorific), 存じ上げる (ja) (ぞんじあげる, zonji-ageru) (humble)
- Jèrriais: saver
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- Kazakh: білу (kk) (bilw)
- Khmer: ចេរ (km) (ceɛ)
- Korean: 알다 (ko) (alda)
- Kurdish: zanîn (ku), زانین (ku)
- Kyrgyz: билүү (ky) (bilüü)
- Lao: ຮູ້ (lo) (huu)
- Latin: scio (la)
- Latvian: zināt (lv)
- Lithuanian: žinoti (lt)
- Low German: weten (nds)
- Macedonian: знае (mk) (znáe)
- Malay: tahu (ms)
- Malayalam: അറിയുക (ml) (aṟiyuka)
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: мэдэх (mn) (medeh)
- Nahuatl: mati (nah)
- Norwegian: vite (no)
- Occitan: saber (oc), saupre (oc)
- Old English: witan (ang)
- Old French: savoir, saveir
- Old Saxon: witan
- Persian: دانستن (fa) (dânestan), دونستن (fa) (dunestan) (colloquial)
- Polish: wiedzieć (pl)
- Portuguese: saber (pt), conhecer (pt)
- Romanian: ști (ro)
- Romansch: savair (rm), saveir (rm), saver (rm)
- Russian: знать (ru) (znat’), (dated, poetic) ведать (ru) (védat’)
- Samogitian: žėnuotė
- Sardinian: ischire (sc), ischiri (sc)
- Scottish Gaelic: bi fhios aig (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: знати (sh)
- Roman: znati (sh)
- Sicilian: sapiri (scn)
- Sinhalese: දන්නවා (si) (dannavā)
- Slovak: vedieť (sk)
- Slovene: vedeti (sl)
- Spanish: saber (es)
- Swedish: veta (sv)
- Tajik: донистан (tg) (donistan)
- Tatar: белү (tt) (belü)
- Thai: รู้ (th) (rú)
- Turkish: bilmek (tr)
- Turkmen: bilmek (tk)
- Ukrainian: знати (uk) (znáty)
- Urdu: جاننا (ur) (jānnā)
- Uzbek: bilmoq (uz)
- Venetian: saver
- Vietnamese: biết (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: medru (cy), gwybod (cy)
- West Frisian: wite (fy), witte (fy)
- Zazaki: zanıtene
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be acquainted or familiar with
understand (a subject)
- Armenian: իմանալ (hy) (imanal), գիտենալ (hy) (gitenal)
- Burmese: တတ် (my) (tat)
- Cebuano: kasabot
- Cornish:
- Kernewek Kemmyn: godhvos
- Czech: znát (cs)
- Danish: forstå sig på (da), kende til (da)
- Faroese: duga (fo), skilja (fo)
- Finnish: ymmärtää (fi)
- German: können (de), sich auskennen (de) in
- Italian: capire (it)
- Japanese: 理解する (ja) (りかいする, rikai suru), 分かる (ja) (わかる, wakaru)
- Kurdish: zanîn (ku), زانین (ku)
- Latin: capio (la), intellego (la), scio (la), teneo (la)
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have sexual relations with
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- Japanese: 知る (しる, shirú), 知っている (しっている, shitté-irú)
- Manchu: (ulhimbi)
- Rohingya: zano
- Romanian: cunoaște
- Romani: zhanel
- Tagalog: malaman,kaalaman,kabatiran,kamalayan, kakilanlan I know him.-kilala ko siya, i know that the earth is round- alam kong bilog ang daigdig, I know that there will be economic crisis -batid ko ang pagkakaroon ng pang ekonomiyang pagbagsak. I know that he is already inside the house- malay ko na nasa loob na siya ng bahay.
- Telugu: తెలుసుకొను
- Tupinambá: kuab
- Volapük: sevön
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know (plural knows)
- Knowledge.
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Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Celtic *knuwjā- (compare Welsh cnau (“nuts”), Old Breton cnou and Modern Breton kraoñ (“nuts”)).
Pronunciation [edit]
know pl (singulative knowen or knofen)
- nuts
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