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The instances in which two Dutch verbs are both translated in English by the same verb are particularly troublesome, since here just as in the case of any other parts of speech we must train ourselves to recognize distinctions that are not made in our own language. First let us review a few of these:
Kennen and weten: ‘to know’. Kennen means ‘to be acquainted with’ a person or thing or to have acquired knowledge, whereas weten means ‘to know’ a fact.
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© 1958 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Shetter, W.Z. (1958). Idiomatic usages of some common verbs. In: Introduction to Dutch. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9222-4_28
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