conocer
Meaning
- to know (a person or a place), to be familiar with, to be acquainted with
- to meet
- to get to know, become acquainted (with)
- to see, to visit, to explore (i.e., to get to know a place for the first time)
- to hear, to know (implies hearing for the first time)
- to discover, to get to or come to know, to learn about, to find out
- (reciprocal,reflexive) to know, to have known
- (reflexive) to know oneself
- to conceptualize or conceive
Concepts
be acquainted with
be familiar with
be aware of
Synonyms
confesar en juicio
enterarse de
trabar conocimiento
saber de experiencia
saber de ubicación
saber de vida
antemano
Frequency
Hyphenated as
co‧no‧cer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/konoˈθeɾ/
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin conōscere, variant of Latin cognōscere.
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