Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Spanish, Second Edition (2015)
Part VIII
37. Saber
Conjugation of saber
saber to know information
Traducción simple
- I know your name. _____________________________
- I know a lot. _____________________________
- I don’t know anything. _____________________________
- You know the answer(la respuesta). _____________________________
- She knows all the answers. _____________________________
- Do you know the answer?_____________________________
- We don’t know a lot. _____________________________
- You all know the name of the book. _____________________________
¿Verdadero o falso?
- ______ El médico sabe mucho de la anatomía y los órganos internos.
- ______ La actriz no sabe nada de los dramas de William Shakespeare.
- ______ El principal no sabe nada de la escuela.
- ______ El dentista sabe mucho de la boca.
- ______ La joyera sabe mucho de los rubís y las esmeraldas.
- ______ El granjero no sabe nada de las plantas y los animales.
- ______ La escritora sabe mucho de la gramática.
- ______ El químico sabe mucho de los elementos y la ciencia.
- ______ El carpintero no sabe nada de los muebles.
¿Estas personas saben mucho de qué? (What do these persons know a lot about?) Match each person with the appropriate area of expertise.
Traducción compleja
- I’m sad because I have a gift for Jorge and I know that he doesn’t want it.
- He doesn’t know that we go to Canada every winter and summer.
- Do you know why the squirrels(las ardillas) prefer to live in those trees?
- Do you know who has the money and where he hides it?
Traducción: Saber + infinitive (Translation: To know how + to do something)
- I know how to speak Spanish. __________________________________
- You know how to read. __________________________________
- He knows how to dance. __________________________________
- She knows how to sing. __________________________________
- We know how to count to(hasta) one million. __________________________________
- You all know how to fly. __________________________________
- They don’t know how to hang up the telephone. __________________________________
- I don’t know how to close this door. __________________________________
- Do you know how to close that window?__________________________________
¿A, B o C? Pretend that each person is alive, and choose the correct response.