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 Translation for 'Knows' from English to French
NOUN   know | knows
VERB   to know | knew | known
knowing | knows
Va savoir !Who knows!
3 Words
Dieu seul le sait ! [fam.]God (only) knows! [coll.]
Dieu seul le sait ! [fam.]Goodness (only) knows! [coll.]
Dieu seul le sait ! [fam.]Heaven (only) knows! [coll.]
Dieu seul le sait ! [fam.]Lord (only) knows! [coll.]
4 Words
Ça saute aux yeux !Any fool knows that!
Le dernier des ignorants sait cela !Any fool knows that!
Le dernier des imbéciles sait cela !Any fool knows that!
Personne ne sait au juste.Nobody knows for certain.
Personne ne connaît sa destinée.Nobody knows their destiny.
5+ Words
méd.
Il se sait incurable.
He knows that he is terminally ill.
On ignore comment le feu a pris naissance.No one knows how the fire started.
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Usage Examples English
  • He knows the minister responsible for the plan, and he knows his father, and he knows about an "incident" in the draper's shop.
  • "Niemand weet, Niemand weet, Dat ik Repelsteeltje heet!" No one knows, no one knows, That my name is Rumpelstiltskin!
  • In a 1997 interview, Morgan attributed the show's success to the appealing double-act formed by Dougal, "an idiot who knows nothing", and Ted, "an idiot who thinks he knows something but actually knows nothing."
  • The short position knows as much as the long position knows: the short/long positions are both aware of any schemes that they could partake on to gain a profit given some forward price.
  • Each blue-eyed person knows that a second blue-eyed person knows that a third person has blue eyes, but no one knows that there is a "third" blue-eyed person with that knowledge, until the outsider makes their statement.

  • In "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Lame Claim to Fame", one of the lines is, "I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Kevin Bacon."
  • John Lennon once described his wife as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does".
  • In this verse, Madman says that like a Christian knows by heart the Ave Maria and other prayers, MadMan knows by heart some records that have made the history of Italian rap, which for him is religion.
  • A model witnesses a murder, and the cop investigating is the one who did it. And he knows she knows, and she knows he knows she knows.
  • Ana knows that only time and maturity of the can save, but also knows she does not have much time.

  • To advaitins, it refers to a pure consciousness that knows itself and also knows others.
  • John tries to talk with Elena and tells her that he knows she knows.
  • Baidu Knows (...) is a Chinese language collaborative web-based collective intelligence by question and answer provided by the Chinese search engine Baidu.
  • The Player’s strategy would be to seek the help of the Sellers for all the questions whether he knows it or not.
  • "Under the silhouette of the big camphor tree swinging in the stiff wind against the sky, I think - who knows the Mikado's will, perhaps nobody knows it".

  • Gulchohra, the daughter of the highborn, but impoverished, Sultan Bey, knows that her father intends to find a rich fiancé.
  • But British Intelligence knows and they've let Alex know a secret of their own: the last survey team sent to Jamaica by Dunstone vanished without a trace.
  • /Tomorrow Never Knows" was released on January 27, 2010; "Tomorrow never knows" was used as the background theme music for the DyDo coffee commercial featuring Teppei Tajima, the Japanese surfer.
  • "He who knows other men is discerning [...]; he who knows himself is intelligent [...]." ([...] Tao Te Ching 33).
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