kennen
Meaning
- (transitive) to know (a person, a thing), be acquainted with, to have knowledge of the properties of a particular person, object or concept, through personal experience, teaching, practice, or habit
- (auxiliary,colloquial,dialectal) Synonym of kunnen
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ken‧nen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɛnə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch kennen, from Old Dutch kennen, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.
Improve your pronunciation
Start learning Dutch with learnfeliz.
Practice speaking and memorizing "kennen" and many other words and sentences in Dutch.
Go to our Dutch course page