know
Part of speech: verb
noun
particle
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-West Germanic *knāan, from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).
Cognates
from Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Romanian cunoaște, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “to know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“to know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), and Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”).
from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic knega (“to know, know how to, be able”), Old High German knājan (“to know, recognise”), Old Norse kná (“to know how”). Remotely related also Dutch and German kennen, West Frisian kenne (see English ken).
Inflected forms:
form: knows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knew
pos: verb
tags: past
form: knowed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: known
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knew
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: know
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: know
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: knew
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: know
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: knowest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: knew
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: knewest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: knows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knoweth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: knew
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: know
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: knew
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: know
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: knew
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: know
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: knowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: known
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knaa
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: knowe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: knaa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: knowe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Question things. I have the most fun when I'm writing questioning things that people do not question- the assumptions that everybody knows are true.
'[…] I know whether a boy is telling me the truth or not.'
'Thank you, sir.'
Did he hell. They never bloody did.
I know that I’m right and you’re wrong.
He knew something terrible was going to happen.
gloss: To be or become aware or cognizant.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
Malware's sometimes been known to sit dormant for a long time.
‘A Gentleman!’ quoth the Squire, ‘who the Devil can he be? Do, Doctor, go down and ſee who ’tis. Mr. Blifil can hardly be come to town yet.—Go down, do, and know what his Buſineſs is.[’]
gloss: To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
She knows where I live.
I knew he was upset, but I didn't understand why.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Discovered in 2015, the planet known as K2-18b is twice the size of Earth with eight times the mass. While it is thought to be rocky, no one knows if water’s flowing on the surface.
gloss: To be acquainted (with another person).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: You, and I haue knowne ſir.
gloss: To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I know your mother, but I've never met your father.
Borja, do you know Pilar? - Sure, we've actually met before.
I got to know her during the pandemic, so we've known each other for years now.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I shall have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I had left New York for the West.
Marsha is my roommate. — I know Marsha. She is nice.
gloss: To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
euphemistic
transitive
examples: AFterwarde the man knewe Heuáh his wife, which cõceiued & bare Káin, & ſaid, I haue obteined a man by yͤ Lord.
Now Gerald had never thought of her having a mother. Then there must have been a father, too, some time. And Miss Wilmarth existed because two people once had loved and known. It was not a thought to dwell upon.
Wait a second. Are you… attempting to know me?
gloss: To experience.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Their relationship knew ups and downs.
The Truman family knew good times and bad,[…].
gloss: To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
pos: verb
examples: Let me do it. I know how it works.
She knows how to swim.
His mother tongue is Italian, but he also knows French and English.
She knows chemistry better than anybody else.
Know your enemy and know yourself.
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
gloss: To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to know a person's face or figure
to know right from wrong
I wouldn't know one from the other.
Ye ſhall knowe them by their frutes.
The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
Flares do not know friend from foe and so illuminate both. Changes in wind direction can result in flare exposure of the attacker while defenders hide in the shadows.
gloss: To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.
Ernest also is so much improved, that you would hardly know him:[…].
gloss: To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It is vital that he not know.
She knew of our plan.
He knows about 19th century politics.
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
Marsha knows.
gloss: To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do you know "Blueberry Hill"?
gloss: To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mmm... Seems you searched for a name that we don't know, we'll send our trained monkeys to check what's in stock.
gloss: To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Knowledge; the state of knowing.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
examples: That on the view and know of theſe Contents, […] He ſhould the bearers put to […] death, […]
gloss: Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Used at the end of a sentence to draw attention to information one thinks the listener should keep in mind.
pos: particle
tags: Singlish
examples: Make sure you water the plants, know…
I was a naval diver know!
Are you sure they’re gonna give you someting more kilat? I think ah, they put you here to hentak kaki, know!
Ah Chye (Charlie Goh): Eh hello, this is my territory know?
Ang Bock Huat (Tristan Goh): Your territory? You think Scorpion very strong is it?
Synonyms: go to bed with
sleep with
Derived words: in the know
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: njoh
lang: Amharic
word: ማወቅ
roman: mawäḳ
lang: Arabic
word: عَرَفَ
roman: ʕarafa
lang: Arabic
word: عرف
roman: ʕeref
lang: Arabic
word: عِرِف
roman: ʕirif
lang: Arabic
word: دِري
roman: diri
lang: Armenian
word: իմանալ
roman: imanal
lang: Armenian
word: ճանաչել
roman: čanačʻel
lang: Armenian
word: գիտենալ
roman: gitenal
lang: Aromanian
word: cunoscu
lang: Asturian
word: conocer
lang: Asturian
word: coñocer
lang: Basque
word: ezagutu
lang: Belarusian
word: знаць
roman: znacʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: позна́вам
roman: poznávam
lang: Bulgarian
word: зна́я
roman: znája
lang: Burmese
word: သိ
roman: si.
lang: Buryat
word: таниха
roman: tanixa
lang: Catalan
word: conèixer
lang: Cebuano
word: katultol
lang: Cebuano
word: kaila
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏅᏔ
roman: unvta
lang: Chinese
word: 捌
roman: pat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 認識 /认识
roman: rènshi
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: udjua
lang: Cornish
word: aswonn
lang: Czech
word: znát
lang: Danish
word: kende
lang: Dutch
word: kennen
lang: Esperanto
word: koni
lang: Estonian
word: tundma
lang: Estonian
word: teadma
lang: Faroese
word: kenna
lang: Finnish
word: tuntea
lang: French
word: connaître
lang: French
word: connaitre
lang: West-Frisian
word: kenne
lang: Friulian
word: cognossi
lang: Galician
word: coñecer
lang: Georgian
word: ცნობა
roman: cnoba
lang: German
word: kennen
lang: German
word: wüsse
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽
roman: kunnan
lang: Greek
word: γνωρίζω
roman: gnorízo
lang: Greek
word: ξέρω
roman: xéro
lang: Ancient Greek
word: οἶδα
roman: oîda
lang: Mbya Guarani
word: kuaa
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: kuaa
lang: Gujarati
word: ઓળખવું
roman: oḷkhavũ
lang: Haitian Creole
word: konnen
lang: Hebrew
word: הִכִּיר
roman: hikír
lang: Higaonon
word: kilala
lang: Hungarian
word: ismer
lang: Icelandic
word: þekkja
lang: Ido
word: konocar
lang: Indonesian
word: kenal
lang: Irish
word: aithin
lang: Irish
word: aithne a bheith ag
lang: Istriot
word: cugnussi
lang: Italian
word: conoscere
lang: Japanese
word: ...を知っている
roman: ...o shitte iru
lang: Japanese
word: ...に精通している
roman: ...ni seitsū shite iru
lang: Kabyle
word: ẓer
lang: Kalmyk
word: таньх
roman: tanʹx
lang: Kikuyu
word: ũĩ
lang: Korean
word: ...와 친한 사이다
roman: ...wa chinhan saida
lang: Korean
word: 알다
roman: alda
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ناسین
roman: nasîn
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: nasîn
lang: Lakota
word: slolyÁ
lang: Lao
word: ຮູ້ຈັກ
roman: hū chak
lang: Latin
word: cognoscere
lang: Latin
word: agnosco
lang: Latin
word: regnosco
lang: Latin
word: nosco
lang: Latin
word: noscito
lang: Latvian
word: pazīt
lang: Livonian
word: tundõ
lang: Lombard
word: cugnuss
lang: Macedonian
word: знае
roman: znae
lang: Malay
word: kenal
lang: Malayalam
word: അറിയുക
roman: aṟiyuka
lang: Mirandese
word: coincer
lang: Mòcheno
word: kennen
lang: Mongolian
word: таних
roman: tanix
lang: Navajo
word: bił bééhózin
lang: Norman
word: connaître
lang: Norwegian
word: kjenne
lang: Occitan
word: conéisser
lang: Ojibwe
word: gikenim (vta)
lang: Ojibwe
word: gikendan (vti)
lang: Church Slavic
word: знати
roman: znati
lang: Old East Slavic
word: знати
roman: znati
lang: Old English
word: cunnan
lang: Old Saxon
word: kennian
lang: Old Tupi
word: kuab
lang: Oromo
word: beekuu
lang: Papiamentu
word: conoci
lang: Persian
word: شناختن
roman: šenâxtan
lang: Piedmontese
word: conosse
lang: Pipil
word: -ishmati
lang: Pipil
word: -ixmati
lang: Polabian
word: znot
lang: Polish
word: znać
lang: Portuguese
word: conhecer
lang: Romanian
word: cunoaște
lang: Russian
word: знать
roman: znatʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bi eòlach air
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зна̏ти
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: позна́вати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: znȁti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: poznávati
lang: Slovak
word: poznať
lang: Slovene
word: znati
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: znaś
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: znać
lang: Spanish
word: conocer
lang: Spanish
word: cognocer (desus.)
lang: Swedish
word: känna
lang: Swedish
word: känna till
lang: Swedish
word: veta om
lang: Tagalog
word: kilala
lang: Tagalog
word: makilala
lang: Tagalog
word: kilalanin
lang: Tarantino
word: canòsce
lang: Thai
word: รู้จัก
roman: rúu-jàk
lang: Tocharian A
word: kñā-
lang: Tok Pisin
word: save
lang: Turkish
word: tanımak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طانیمق
roman: tanımak
lang: Ukrainian
word: зна́ти
roman: znáty
lang: Venetan
word: cognossare
lang: Venetan
word: cognósar
lang: Venetan
word: conoser
lang: Venetan
word: conosar
lang: Venetan
word: conóser
lang: Venetan
word: conósar
lang: Venetan
word: conosare
lang: Venetan
word: conossar
lang: Venetan
word: conossare
lang: Vietnamese
word: làm quen
lang: Volapük
word: sevön
lang: Walloon
word: kinoxhe
lang: Welsh
word: nabod
lang: Welsh
word: adnabod
lang: Yiddish
word: קענען
roman: kenen
lang: Yuki
word: nąnák
lang: Yup'ik
word: nallunrituq
lang: Zazaki
word: zanayen
lang: Zazaki
word: sılasnen
lang: Zealandic
word: kenne