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-Germanic *kannijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnən

kennen

1. (transitive) to know (a person, a thing), be acquainted with
2. (auxiliary, colloquial, dialectal) Synonym of kunnen

• bekennen
• erkennen
• herkennen
• kenmerk
• miskennen
• ontkennen
• toekennen
• verkennen

• weten

From Old High German kennan, from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to know”). Cognate to Dutch kennen, Scots and English ken (“to know”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnən/

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kennen (third-person singular simple present kennt, past tense kannte, past participle gekannt, 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. Wissen is used with facts and memorized information (“to be aware of”), whereas kennen is used with people, places, concepts, etc. (“to be familiar with”). As a fallible rule of thumb, one can say that wissen corresponds to English “to know” + subclause and “to know of”, while kennen corresponds to “to know” + direct object.
• The past subjunctive kennte is very rare in contemporary German. It should be used with great caution even in the most formal register.

• auskennen
• bekennen
• erkennen
• kennenlernen, kennen lernen
• Kenntnis
• Kennung
• Kennzeichen
• verkennen

• kennen in Duden online

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 Old High German kennan, 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 Old Dutch kennen, 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
• Limburgish: kènne, kinne

• “kennen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “kennen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Proto-Germanic *kannijaną.

kennen

1. to know, to be aware of

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: kennen
  • Dutch: kennen
  • Limburgish: kènne, kinne

• “kennen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012