kennen

• (Revived Late Cornish) kednen

From kenn (“peel, scum, skin”) +‎ -en.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [kɛnːɛn]

kennen m (plural kennow)

1. film, membrane

From Middle Dutch kennen, from Old Dutch kennen, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ken‧nen
• Rhymes: -ɛnən

kennen

1. (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

   Lars kent Emma, weet je dat? — Ja, ik weet dat Lars Emma kent.

   Lars knows Emma, do you know? - Yes, I know that Lars knows Emma.

   Ik ken Rusland niet, ik weet niets over dat land.

   I don't know Russia, I don't know anything about that country.

   Ik kan goed koken, maar de Indonesische keuken ken ik eigenlijk niet; ik weet niet eens hoe je nasi goreng klaarmaakt.

   I know how to cook well, but I don't really know Indonesian cuisine; I don't even know how to prepare fried rice.

   Ik spreek wel een beetje alledaags Frans, maar de Franse grammatica ken ik slecht.

   I know a little colloquial French, but I know French grammar poorly.

2. (auxiliary, colloquial, dialectal) Synonym of kunnen

• Afrikaans: ken
• Negerhollands: ken

• weten

From Middle High German kennen, from Old High German kennan, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to know”), a causative form of *kunnaną formed with the suffix *-janą.

Cognate to Bavarian kennan, Dutch kennen, Scots and English ken (“to know”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnən/

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kennen (irregular weak, third-person singular present kennt, past tense kannte, past participle gekannt, past subjunctive kennte, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to know; to be acquainted with; to be familiar with

• Although the senses of both kennen and wissen are covered by English “to know”, the two German verbs are only occasionally interchangeable. Only wissen is generally used with a following subclause (I know that..., how..., when..., etc.). With nouns the distinction may be more difficult. Wissen is used with facts and memorized information (“to be aware of”, French savoir), whereas kennen is used with concepts, ideas, backgrounds (“to be familiar with”, French connaître). Compare the following two sentences, both of which translate literally as “Do you know the street that he mentioned to us?”:

Kennst du die Straße, die er uns genannt hat? ― Are you familiar with the street? Have you been there before?

Weißt du die Straße, die er uns genannt hat? ― Do you know what street it was? Do you remember its name?

• The past subjunctive kennte is highly literary or archaic. It should be used with some caution even in formal writing.

1. • 1887, Eduard Engel, Griechische Frühlingstage, 4th, purer edition, Radebeul bei Dresden: Haupt & Hammon, published 1927, page 361:

     So, das sind die Entscheidungen der größten Gelehrten über die doch nicht ganz unwichtige Frage, wie eine der Sprachen auszusprechen sei, in der jahraus jahrein in Deutschland gutgezählte 50 000 junge Menschenkinder unterrichtet werden.
     Trotz jenen Entscheidungen ist natürlich noch lange nicht daran zu denken, daß dem Unfug einer als gänzlich falsch erkannten Aussprache des Griechischen ein Ende gesetzt wäre. Der Schlendrian wird auf diesem Gebiete des Schulwesens wohl ebenso lange dauern, wie auf vielen andern; denn bequem ist allerdings jener Schlendrian, nur wissenschaftlich ist er nicht, und unbrauchbar für das Leben ist er obendrein. Die Beseitigung des Schlendrians werde ich wohl nicht mehr erleben, auch dann nicht, wenn Plato selber aus der Asche auferstünde und die deutschen Schulmänner die richtige Aussprache lehrte. Sie würden ihm beweisen, daß er sich irre: er habe in den mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden seit seinem Tode gewiß die richtige Aussprache vergessen; sie aber, die deutschen Oberlehrer und Direktoren, kennten sie ganz genau: sie wäre buchstäblich so wie das Neuhochdeutsche des 20. Jahrhunderts gewesen.

     So, these are the reckonings of the greatest scholars about the not quite insignificant question of how one of the languages, which is taught to about 50 000 young lads per annum, should be pronounced.
     In spite of these reckonings, by far it is not to think that this buffoonery of an utterly wrong pronunciation of Greek would come to an end. The litherness in this field of schooling will last as long as in many others; for convenient it is forsooth, but scientific it is not, and 'tis devoid of use for life as well. The elimination of this litherness I will not be an observer of in my lifetime, even if Plato himself were to rise from his ashes and teach the pedants the right pronunciation. They would shew him his being at fault: he surely has forgotten the right pronunciation; but they, the senior and head teachers, knew it very well; it would be literally like the New High German of the 20th century.

• “kennen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “kennen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “kennen” in Duden online
• “kennen” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old Saxon *kennian, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan (“to know”). Cognate with German and Dutch kennen, English ken.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnnən/

kennen

1. (transitive) to know (someone); to be acquainted with
2. (transitive) to know (some fact); to have knowledge of

• (to know a fact): weten

• bekennen
• kennen lehren
• Kenntnis
• Kennen
• Kennteken
• utkennen
• verkennen

From Middle High German kennen, from Old High German *kennen, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną. Cognate with German kennen, Dutch kennen, English ken.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænən/
• Rhymes: -ænən

kennen (third-person singular present kennt, past participle kannt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to know

• auskennen
• bekennen
• erkennen
• verkennen

From Arabic كَنَّنَ‎ (kannana).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛn.nɛn/

kennen (imperfect jkennen, past participle mkennen)

1. to shelter, provide shelter for

From Old Dutch kennen, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

kennen

1. to know, to be familiar with
2. to recognise, to know who/what someone/something is
3. to recognise, to acknowledge (a fact)
4. to admit
5. to consider (to be)
6. to establish (as fact)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: kennen
  • Afrikaans: ken
  • Negerhollands: ken
• Limburgish: kènne, kinne

• “kennen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “kennen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• kenin

From Old English cennan, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnən/

kennen

1. to make known

• English: ken
• Scots: ken
• Yola: ee-kent (ppl.)

• “kennen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Middle High German kennen, from Old High German kennan, from Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to make known”). Cognate to German kennen, Scots ken.

kennen

1. to know, be familiar with

• “kennen” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

From Proto-West Germanic *kannijan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną.

kennen

1. to know, to be aware of

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: kennen
  • Dutch: kennen
    • Afrikaans: ken
    • Negerhollands: ken
  • Limburgish: kènne, kinne

• “kennen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012