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Use Saber To Talk About Facts: Saber Is An Irregular Verb. It's Easy To Find Its Conjugation Online or in
Use Saber To Talk About Facts: Saber Is An Irregular Verb. It's Easy To Find Its Conjugation Online or in
Use Saber To Talk About Facts: Saber Is An Irregular Verb. It's Easy To Find Its Conjugation Online or in
Facts
Saber is an irregular verb. It’s easy to find its conjugation online or in
Portuguese textbooks.
Use Saber to talk about information or facts that you know (or don’t
know).
Example 1:
André: Você sabe o preço de uma passagem para São Paulo?
Laura: Não, não sei.
Translation:
André: Do you know the price of a ticket to São Paulo?
Laura: No, I don’t know.
André and Laura are talking about a piece of information: the price of a
plane ticket. So they are using Saber.
Example 2:
João: A que horas é a reunião? Você sabe?
Cida: Sei, sim. É às 10.
Translation:
João: At what time is the meeting? Do you know?
Cida: Yes, I do. It’s at 10.
Example 3:
Cida: Você sabe quem vai participar da reunião?
João: Não sei nada sobre essa reunião.
Translation:
Cida: Do you know who is going to be in the meeting?
João: I don’t know anything about this meeting.
In examples 2 and 3, João and Cida are talking about facts or pieces of
information: the time of a meeting and who is going to be there. So they
use the verb Saber.
Conhecer or Saber de =
To Know Of
To express that you know of something you have two options:
6. Saber de
7. Conhecer
When we are asking for recommendations we often use this structure.
Examples:
8. Quem conhece (sabe de) um bom restaurante perto do meu hotel? =
Who knows of a good restaurant by my hotel?
9. Você conhece (sabe de) um bom agente de viagens? = Do you know
of a good travel agent?
10. Você vai para Pipa? Eu conheço (sei de) uma pousada
maravilhosa. = Are you going to Pipa? I know of a great pousada.
It’s easy to see that it requires practice to use Saber and Conhecer
correctly. It’s not really difficult, but it does require that you become
familiar with many different situations, so that you can quickly choose the
right verb at the right time during a conversation. The more you practice,
the more second-nature it becomes and the less you need to think about it.