conhecer
Meaning
- (transitive) to know (be acquainted or familiar with)
- (transitive) to meet; to get to know (to become acquainted with)
- (transitive) to know (someone/something) (to ascribe to something the title or quality of)
- (transitive) to visit a place for the first time
- (archaic,transitive) to know (have sexual relations with)
- (intransitive) to hear (to consider on its merits)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
co‧nhe‧cer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kõ.ɲeˈse(ʁ)/
Etymology
From older conhocer, from Old Galician-Portuguese connocer, from Latin cognōscere.
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