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kennen: to know — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

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kennen

to know

to know a person, place, or thing because one is familiar with it

IPA/ˈkɛnən/

Primary stress is marked in IPA.

Meaning 1neutral · 90%

to know a person, place, or thing because one is familiar with it

Kennst du den Mann dort?

Ich kenne dieses Café sehr gut.

Wir haben die Nachbarn schon vorher gekannt.

Use kennen for people and familiar places; use wissen for information: Ich weiß die Adresse.

jemanden gut kennen — to know someone well — to know a city

eine Stadt kennen

Ich weiß Anna.

Ich kenne Anna.

For knowing a person, use kennen, not wissen.

kennen takes a person or thing as an object: Ich kenne Berlin. wissen is for facts: Ich weiß die Antwort.

Choose one answer.

Which sentence is correct for knowing Anna?

kennen means to know a person, place, or thing from familiarity; wissen is for facts. Perfekt uses haben.