Hello everyone. I'm learning spanish and I'm having troubles deciding when to use SABER vs CONOCER. For example, I don't know why these are wrong: 1.Marcos: ¡Hola, Malena! ¿Qué haces esta noche? ¿Quieres ir a cenar conmigo? ___________ un buen restaurante... A.conozco B.sé C.conoce D.sabe Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:B 3.Marcos: Está abierto hasta las doce de la noche. ¿____________ la dirección (address)? A.conoces B.sé C.sabes D.conozco Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:B En el restaurante…. 5.Marcos: Yo _______ que la comida de este restaurante es muy buena. A.conozco B.sabes C.sé D.conoces Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:A 6.Malena: Sí, todo está muy bueno. Marcos, ¿_________ si tienen vino bueno en este restaurante? A.sabes B.sabe C.conoces D.conoce Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:D 7.Marcos: Sí. __________ a muchas personas que dicen que el vino es muy bueno aquí. A.sé B.conoce C.sabe D.conozco Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:A 8.Malena: Y… ¿ ____________ qué vino es el mejor (the best one)? A.sabes B.conoces C.saben D.conocen Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:C6.Antón: Sí, ¡claro! Antes de estudiar, ¿quieren salir a comer? Yo ________________ una pizzería excelente. Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:sé 7.Malena: Me parece muy buena idea. ¿Cómo ___________ tú que me gusta la pizza? Points Earned:0/1 Your Response:conoces Any help would be great!! Thank you, -Cory
it´s not easy (for me ) explain the diference between saber and conocer, you use "saber" when you talk about habilities and knowledge of something and conocer means when you´ve have some experience about something and someone and needs the preposition "a" when direct object (objeto directo) is a person. this is the theory but the true is i chose the answer how it sounds. because of this. it´s very important read read read and read !
Some of those examples can easily have two answers, at least for me, I speak Spanish. In some cases there is a relation between "conocer" with "meet", and of course "saber" with "know", "sabiduria" : "knowledge" --------------- Do you know anyone here who likes swimming ? ¿Conoces a alguien aquí que le guste nadar? Here is replaced with MEET. --------------- Do you know playing basketball ? ¿Sabes jugar baloncesto ? And now you are saying here, if you KNOW HOW TO basketball or etc. HOW TO. bai
The difference is ontological. Conocer is more like "familiar with", while saber deals with knowledge. You can't "know" a person or a country per se, because they are not bits of knowledge, so you conoces some one or conoces a country or city or wherever. But you can saber de someone, as you can have knowledge of someone. So, "yo sé de mi amigo, porque nos conocemos bien" - I know about my friend because we know each other well.
Saber-knowing facts and such like phone #, addresses, just factual things Conocer-knowing with the heart like being acquainted with a place or familiar
Saber is used to indicate knowledge of facts or information, or knowledge that can be stated. Conocer is used to indicate that you are familiar or aquainted with a person or place, or the work of a writer or artist. When used with a place, it means to have been there. Here's a link to a more complete explanation with examples: Spanish Lesson - Saber and Conocer
Here's the rule I learned: Conocer with: • Proper names (Claudia, New York, Mr. Garcia, the Hilton Hotel) • Any specific person or place (that man, your neighborhood, this city, the art museum) Saber with everything else. For example, when talking to a cab driver: "El Intercontinental Hotel, por favor. Lo conoce?"
It's difficult to explain in short, guess a linguist or a teacher could do it well, so I opted to put my answers in CAPITAL letters, hope this helps.
