köken: From Middle High German künnen, kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). The umlauted ö in the infinitive and plural present—as well as the umlaut in the other modal verbs mögen (“to like”), müssen (“to have to”), and dürfen (“to be allowed to”)—is unexpected from an historical point of view.…
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic знати (znati), from Proto-Slavic *znati, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źnōˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵnéh₃t (“to know, get to know”), from *ǵneh₃-. Cognates include Polish znać, English know, kenning, canny, German kennen and Sanskrit ज्ञा (jñā, “to know”). For the collective noun sense of "nobility, aristocratic people", itself derived from the verb знать. It…
to know (something) · to come to know; to realize · to consider; to deem
çekim: geçmiş دانست · ortaç دانسته · şimdiki میداند · ulaç داننده
köken: From Middle Persian YDOYTWN-stn' (dānistan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ānáHti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥néh₃ti. Related to شناختن (šenâxtan, “recognize”), Northern Kurdish zanîn, Baluchi زانگ (zánag), Sanskrit जानाति (jānāti), English know.
to know (knowledge), to be aware of something · to remember · to be able to, to manage to (literally, "to know how to/to know of a way to")
çekim: geçmiş wisten · ortaç geweten · şimdiki weet · ulaç wetend
köken: From Middle Dutch wēten, from Old Dutch witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“know”), a root perfect from the root *weyd-. The past tense forms is also composed of the regular past tense marker -te.
aile: alleswetend, alwetend, betweter, bij mijn weten, jeweetwel, kweenie, onwetend, te weten, van de hoed en de rand weten, van wanten weten
Ik weet hoe die planeet heet.
Ik ken Rusland niet, ik weet niets over dat land.
Ik kan goed koken, maar de Indonesische keuken ken ik eigenlijk niet; ik weet niet eens hoe je nasi goreng klaarmaakt.
to know (be acquainted or familiar with) · to meet; to get to know (to become acquainted with) · to know (someone/something) (to ascribe to something the title or quality of)
çekim: geçmiş conheci · ortaç conhecido · şimdiki conhece
zıt: desconhecer
köken: From older conhocer, from Old Galician-Portuguese connocer, from Latin cognōscere.
Não conheço esse livro.
Venha cá, quero que você conheça meu primo.
A Jussara estava a fim de um cara e bolou um plano para conhecê-lo. Ou para ele a conhecer.
to know (to perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that) · to know (to be aware of; to be cognizant of) · to know (to have knowledge; to have information, be informed)
çekim: geçmiş wiedziano · şimdiki wie
eş: zdawać sobie sprawę, orientować się, być pewnym, mieć pewność, być świadomym, umieć
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *wóyde Proto-Balto-Slavic *waistei Proto-Slavic *vě̀děti Old Polish wiedzieć Polish wiedzieć Inherited from Old Polish wiedzieć.
to know [with elative ‘about’], be aware of (in some cases implying superficial knowledge, see the usage notes below) · to mean, spell, signify, presage, bode
çekim: geçmiş tietänyt · şimdiki tietäisi · ulaç tietävä
köken: From Proto-Finnic *teetädäk, derived from *tee. Equivalent to tie (“road, way”) + -tää; the original meaning seems to have been “to know the way to” (thus tiedän talon (“I know the way to the house”)) or “to lead to the way to”.
to understand · to mean, construe (either with úgy or with -n/-on/-en/-ön / alatt) · be familiar with, be skilled at something (-hoz/-hez/-höz)
çekim: geçmiş értettek
köken: ér (“to reach”) + -t (instantaneous suffix). The original sense probably was “to touch”. Compare English to get something in the sense of “to understand”.
know (be acquainted or familiar with) · recognise as one’s own (with the preposition ved) · to feel
çekim: geçmiş kendte · ortaç kendt · ulaç kendende
köken: From Old Danish kænnæ, from Old Norse kenna (“know, feel”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną. Cognate with Swedish känna, German kennen, English ken. A causative form of *kunnaną (“to know”).
to know how to, to be able to do (a certain activity, task, etc.) · to know, to speak, to be fluent in (a language) · to know, to be able
çekim: geçmiş pratu · ortaç prasts · şimdiki prot
köken: From an earlier *prasti, from *prat-ti, from Proto-Baltic *prat-, from Proto-Indo-European *pret-, *prot- (“to understand”). The first-person form is derived from a variant with an extra n, *prantuo, from *prantu, from protu. Up until the 17th century, prast basically meant “to understand,” “to perceive,” i.e., it was synonymous with saprast; the present-day meaning occurred alongside the older…
to can (to have some skill, to be capable of something)
çekim: geçmiş olla osanud · ortaç osanud · şimdiki oskab · ulaç oskav
köken: From Proto-Finnic *osait'ak, with an added -k- in analogy with similar gradation patterns. Equivalent to osa + -ma. Cognate to Finnish osata and Votic õzata.
to know (be certain or sure about (something); have knowledge of; be informed about)
çekim: geçmiş gwybuwyd · şimdiki gŵyr
köken: From Middle Welsh gwybot, from Proto-Brythonic *gwɨbod. Originally a compound of bod (“to be”) with an adjective derived from Proto-Celtic *wid-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”).