weten

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeːtə(n)/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: we‧ten
• Rhymes: -eːtən

From Middle Dutch wēten, from Old Dutch witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“know”), a root perfect from the root *weyd-. The past tense forms is also composed of the regular past tense marker -te.

weten

1. (transitive) to know (knowledge), to be aware of something

   Ik weet hoe die planeet heet. ― I know what that planet is called.

   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.

2. (transitive) to remember

   Ik weet nog hoe koud het vorig jaar was. ― I still remember how cold it was last year.

3. (auxiliary, with te) to be able to, to manage to (literally, "to know how to/to know of a way to")

   De Batavieren wisten zich goed te verdedigen tegen de Romeinse aanval. ― The Batavians were able to defend themselves well against the Roman attack.

   Deze partij wist niet eerder de kiesdrempel te halen. ― This party was not able to reach the electoral threshold before.

   Weet jij een leuk cafeetje hier in de buurt? – Ik weet er een paar te zitten, maar ik ken er maar eentje echt goed. ― Do you know a nice pub around here? – I can locate a few, but I only know one of them really well.

   • 2003, Marylin Simons, Carrousel‎, Paramaribo: Okopipi, →ISBN, page 53:

     Die overgrootmoeder van me, ze was eigenlijk niet van hier, als je goed berekent. Is van Bridgetown was ze. ‘Bados’ zeggen die mensen van daar want ze weten niet als wij te praten. Badyan... is Badyan praten ze daar, een soort van Negerengels ma' toch een beetje anders als van ons.

     My great-grandmother, she was actually not from here, strictly speaking. From Bridgetown, she was. 'Bados', the local people say, because they can't speak like us. Bajan... Bajan, they speak there, a kind of Creole, but still a bit different from ours.

• Afrikaans: weet
• Jersey Dutch: wête
• Negerhollands: weet
• Skepi Creole Dutch: guet

• kennen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

weten

1. inflection of wijten:
   1. plural past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

• weent

• witen

From Middle Low German wēten, from Old Saxon witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną.

weten (past singular wüss, past participle wüsst, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to know; to be aware of (a fact)

   Ik weet, woneem du büst. — “I know where you are.”

   vun wat weten — “to know about something”

• kennen

From Old Dutch witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde.

wēten

1. to know (knowledge)
2. to know (person)
3. to get to know, to learn of, to be made aware of (a fact)
4. (auxiliary, with te) to be able to

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: weten
  • Afrikaans: weet
• Limburgish: weite, wiete

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

From Old Saxon witan, from Proto-West Germanic *witan, from Proto-Germanic *witaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”).

• Stem vowel: ē¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /wɪətən/

wēten

1. to know (knowledge)

• wetten

• German Low German: wetten, wieten

From Arabic وَطَن (waṭan).

weten

1. homeland, home country
2. motherland, fatherland, mother country