ken

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (Scotland, transitive) To know, perceive or understand.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.

Noun

1. (uncountable) Range of perception.
2. (uncountable) Knowledge, perception, or sight.
3. (uncountable) Range of sight.

Noun

A house, especially a den of thieves.

Noun

Youth or children's group.

Noun

A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.

Noun

The tsurugi (type of sword).

Sinónimos

knowledge

cognizance

awareness

sight

competency

understanding

consciousness

proficiency

command

realization

learning

know

lucidity

competence

skill

grasp

grip

harass

heckle

hold

incommode

inconvenience

infest

intellect

irk

outlook

penetration

pester

pother

prospect

savvy

scenery

scope

sense

trouble

view

visibility

grate on

jar on

perception

acquaintance

intuitive feeling

ail

annoy

apprehension

badger

🦡

bedevil

bother

cognition

comprehension

Traducións

connaissance

conocimiento

γνώση

besef

coscienza

bekendheid

Ken

Wissen

Wissenschaft

Bewußtsein

Begriff

conoscenza

Kenntnis

bekende

consapevolezza

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/kɛn/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: kennen

Herdado de Old English: cennan

Relativo a frisón occidental: kenne

Relativo a neerlandés: kennen

Relativo a alemán: kennen

Relativo a noruegués bokmål: kjenne

Relativo a noruegués nynorsk: kjenna

Relativo a Old Norse: kenna

Relativo a sueco: känna

Relativo a dinamarqués: kende

In summary

Northern English dialects and Scots language from Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan (“make known, declare, acknowledge”) originally “to make known”, causative of cunnan (“to become acquainted with, to know”), from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, causative of *kunnaną (“be able”), from which comes the verb can.
Cognate with West Frisian kenne (“to know; recognise”), Dutch kennen (“to know”), German kennen (“to know, be acquainted with someone/something”), Norwegian Bokmål kjenne, Norwegian Nynorsk kjenna, Old Norse kenna (“to know, perceive”), Swedish känna (“to know, feel”), Danish kende (“to know”). See also: can, con.