# 24. The Verb “Conocer”

- **Time range:** 01:39:51 – 01:43:05  (duration 00:03:14)
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> Conocer To be familar/acquainted with people, places, and/or things

**[01:39:52]** to be familiar with or be acquainted with people places and things in general unlike the verb sa which means to know something factually or do something the verb konos tends to lean more towards acquaintances of ideas rather than knowing ideas and if you think about it there's a big difference between knowing something from top to bottom and knowing something that isn't fully clear which is the reason why Spanish creates two

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> Saber Conocer To know something To be fully, completely, familar/acquainted and factually from with people, places, top to bottom and/or things

**[01:40:11]** verbs for to know because one verb means to know something factually and completely whereas the other indicates being acquainted with something rather than fully knowing what it is the syntax

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> Conocer - to be familiar with conocemos conoces | conocéis conoce | conocen

**[01:40:18]** of Kos follows the normal conjugation path or verbs ending in e r aside from the yo pronoun which is irregular

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> Conocer - to be familiar with conozco | conocemos conoces | conocéis conoce | conocen

**[01:40:24]** following the ending like I said at the beginning konos means more being familiar with people places and things in general rather than knowing something factually therefore yosco means unfamiliar with a person place or thing rather than me knowing something factually because being familiar with a person place or thing doesn't necessarily mean that I know it from top to bottom two koses means you're familiar with El means he's familiar noos we're familiar with Kos y'all are familiar with and AOS Kosen they're familiar with as always try not focusing

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> Conocer - to be familiar with conozco | conocemos conoces éis consi conoce | conoc

**[01:40:56]** on these pronouns because they're not that useful in conversation overall the

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> Conocer Conocer can help to differentiate the qualities of knowing something factually and being familiar with a person, place, or thing, especially in questions

**[01:41:00]** verb konos is actually considered to be a very useful verb in Spanish because it helps to differentiate the qualities of knowing something factually and being familiar with a person place or thing which is sort of the same way the verbs s and estar work konos as a matter of fact is very useful when it comes down to asking questions and it actually uses direct object pronouns to replace people places and things which could all be nouns for instance if I ask you Kos Las

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces la ciudad de Las Vegas?

**[01:41:23]** Vegas I'm not necessarily asking you if you know the city of Las Vegas but rather if you're familiar with the city

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces la ciudad de Las Vegas? Are you familiar with city of Las Vegas?

**[01:41:27]** of Las Vegas and you can reply with

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces la ciudad de Las Vegas? Si, yo conozco la ciudad

**[01:41:31]** like or if you want to use a direct object pronoun you can simply sayos the reason why the verb sa cannot

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> Why saber CAN'T be used: éSabes la ciudad de Las Vegas?

**[01:41:38]** be used here is because by saying lasas the verb sa would have to imply that you

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> Why saber CAN'T be used: éSabes la ciudad de Las Vegas? Do you know the city of Las Vegas from top to bottom, including the people, streets, food?

**[01:41:43]** know the city of Las Vegas from top to bottom including the people streets food and everything in general which would be impossible to know ultimately resulting

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> Why saber CAN’ used: éSabes la ciuda Las Vegas? Do you know city o' Vegas from top to bottom, in ing the p , streets, food?

**[01:41:50]** in an incorrect use of sa which is why

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> Conocer To be familiar with people, places, and things

**[01:41:52]** Spanish calls the term koser being familiar with rather than fully knowing the person place or thing there are more examples that you can make with Kos like asking about people koses meaning are

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces a John?

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces a John? Are you familiar with John?

**[01:42:02]** you familiar with JN and as you can see Spanish decides to use the personal

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces a John? Are you familiar with John?

**[01:42:05]** preposition a when it comes down to being familiar with people but in this case you can just consider the preposition to be the equivalent of the preposition with in English so whenever

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces a John? Are you familiar with John?

**[01:42:13]** you refer to people in general you always have to include the personal a and with the sentence koses Aon you can reply with c y Kos a or if you want to

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces a John? Si, yo conozco a John

**[01:42:22]** use a direct object pronoun you can say

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> Examples with conocer: éConoces a John? Si, yo lo conozco

**[01:42:24]** C Yos there are of course more examples that you can make with Kos

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> Examples with conocer: El conoce a mi abuelo

**[01:42:30]** like he is familiar with my granddad or

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> Examples with conocer: El conoce a mi abuelo He is familiar with my grandad

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> Examples with conocer: Yo conozco los libros

**[01:42:34]** maybe I'm familiar with the books or

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> Examples with conocer: Yo conozco los libros | am familiar with the books

**[01:42:36]** maybe if you want to include an infinitive inside you can

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> Examples with conocer: Tu quieres conocer el pais

**[01:42:40]** say which would mean you want to be

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> Examples with conocer: Tu quieres conocer el pais You want to be familiar with the country

**[01:42:42]** familiar with the country as country refers to a physical Place overall konos

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> Conocer - to be familiar with conozco | conocemos conoces | conocéis conoce | conocen

**[01:42:46]** is an eminent verb in Spanish because it helps you understand how to think of people places and things in general by being familiar with these ideas rather than fully and factually knowing everything about people places and things I actually don't understand why

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> Conocer Saber To be familiar To fully and with people, factually know places, and information/how things in general to do something

**[01:42:57]** teachers teach both of these verbs at once as I see the two verbs having completely different definitions and so mainly each verb needs its own explanation of how to work with it the
