Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses, Second ... - Ktooba.com

EJERCICIO
7·4
Traducción
VOCABULARIO aparcar to park
cierto true
conducir to drive
enfrente de in front of
la estación de bomberos fi re station
la gente people (in general)
llenar to fi ll
el mecánico mechanic
saber de to know about
el tanque de gasolina gas tank
John is my mechanic. He knows a lot about cars, and I am happy because I don’t know anything
about cars. No, it’s not completely true. I know where the gas tank is and I know how to fi ll it.
I know how to drive and I know that I can’t park in front of a fi re station. John knows that he has
to know about cars and about people, because many people know very little about cars.
Conocer
Conocer is used to express familiarity with a person, a place, a thing, or a particular fi eld of learning.
Th e key word here is familiarity, for one can never know another person, place, thing, or body
of knowledge completely.
conocer to know (be familiar with)
conozco conocemos
conoces conocéis
conoce conocen
Note that conocer is irregular only in the yo form.
Conocer a: to know a person
When talking about knowing another person (or someone’s pet—but not a stray), a conjugated
form of conocer is followed by the personal a, except when the object is a pronoun.
Conozco a Felipe. I know Phillip.
Lo conocemos. We know him.
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