know

Betekenis

Verb

1. To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
2. To be or become aware or cognizant.
3. To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
4. (obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
5. To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
6. To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
7. To experience.
8. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
9. To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
10. To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
11. To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
12. To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
13. To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
14. To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.

Noun

1. Knowledge; the state of knowing.
2. Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)

Noun

Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”)

Particle

Used at the end of a sentence to draw attention to information the speaker thinks the listener should keep in mind.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/nəʊ/

Etimologie

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 Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic kná (“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).
* from Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “I know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“I know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), and Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”).

Sinne

What do you know about that ?

" What is it that I still need to know ?" the boy asked .

Did you know that Harry got a new job ?

Cause you know how politicians are .

The Flying Corps owed to this man much more than they know or think .

He must know how to make rain and drive away the locusts .

Don't you know it ?

And I want you to know that I'm coming back .