You Know and You Understand
Use sabe for polite “you know” and entiende for polite “you understand.” Ask about knowledge and comprehension while recycling familiar language from Modules 1–14.
You know: sabe
Use sabe for facts and information known by one person. Use conoce for knowing a person or place.
One new building block
Spanish often leaves out usted. Here, sabe by itself can mean polite you know.
Build the meaning step by step
Use saber after familiar helper forms
After puede, quiere, or necesita, use saber: puede saber, quiere saber, necesita saber.
Practice sabe, conocer, and saber
Interpret each prompt before revealing the answer.
You understand: entiende
Use entiende to say what one person understands and to ask polite comprehension questions.
One new building block
Use entiende alone for polite you understand.
Build the meaning step by step
Use entender after familiar helper forms
After puede, quiere, or necesita, use entender: puede entender, quiere entender, necesita entender.
Practice entiende and entender
Interpret each prompt before revealing the answer.
Use knowing and understanding in a short exchange
Separate knowing facts from knowing people and places
- Sabe is used for knowing facts or information.
- Conoce is used for knowing a person or place.
- Entiende means polite “you understand”; entender follows helper verbs.
- Object words can come before the verb: me entiende, la conoce.
Connect knowing and understanding
Interpret this without looking back:
Sabe lo que dice y entiende la respuesta.
Module 15 progress
You can now say what someone knows and understands while combining these forms with familiar helpers and earlier module vocabulary.