Sentence examples of "connaissaient" in French

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Peu d'étudiants connaissaient son nom. Few students knew his name.
Tous ceux qui le connaissaient l'admiraient. Everyone who knew him admired him.
Je connais John depuis 1976. I have known John since 1976.
Le forum d'Hélène a connu un schisme inconciliable sur l'utilisation d'un ou de deux gants de cuisine. Helen's forum experienced an irreconcilable schism over whether to use one or two oven mitts.
Je la connais un peu. I know her slightly.
"Laisse-moi te demander quelque chose, papa," commença-t-elle, sur un ton d'exaspération patiemment contrôlée que tout parent expérimenté connaît. "Let me ask you something, Dad," she began, in a tone of patiently controlled exasperation that every experienced parent is familiar with.
Je ne te connais pas. I don't know you.
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes. Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
Je le connais de nom. I know him by name.
Je connais suffisamment les faits. I know the fact well enough.
Je ne vous connais pas. I don't know you.
Je le connais fort bien. I know him very well.
Je ne les connais pas. I don't know them.
Je le connais par cœur. I know it by heart.
Je me connais très bien. I know myself very well.
Je ne le connais pas. I don't know him.
Je la connais très bien. I know her very well.
Oh ! Je connais cet homme. Oh! I know the man.
Je le connais très bien. I know it very well.
Elle connaissait déjà cette histoire. She knew the story already.
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