Participles
| Present | cunnende |
| Past | (ġe)cunnen |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | cann |
| 2nd sing. | canst |
| 3rd sing. | cann |
| 1st plur. | cunnon |
| 2nd plur. | cunnon |
| 3rd plur. | cunnon |
Past
| 1st sing. | cūþe |
| 2nd sing. | cūþest |
| 3rd sing. | cūþe |
| 1st plur. | cūþon |
| 2nd plur. | cūþon |
| 3rd plur. | cūþon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | cunne |
| 2nd sing. | cunne |
| 3rd sing. | cunne |
| 1st plur. | cunnen |
| 2nd plur. | cunnen |
| 3rd plur. | cunnen |
Past
| 1st sing. | cūþe |
| 2nd sing. | cūþe |
| 3rd sing. | cūþe |
| 1st plur. | cūþen |
| 2nd plur. | cūþen |
| 3rd plur. | cūþen |
Imperative
| Singular | cunne |
| Plural | cunnaþ |
Verbs conjugated like 'cunnan'
cunnan,
Verbs similar to 'cunnan'
cennan,
cunnian,
unnan,
acennan,
bannan,
cinan,
cuman,
dynnan,
geunnan,
linnan,
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*kunnaną'.
Verbs referencing "cunnan"
English
con, English
keen, Tok Pisin ken, English
cun, Middle English
cunnen.
Sample Sentences
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Iċ wāt þæt hē hīe cann, ac iċ nāt hwanon. (I know that he knows her, but I don't know from where.)
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Iċ nime þone hring, þēah iċ þone weġ ne cunne. (I will take the ring, though I do not know the way.)
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Nāwiht nis hefiġre þonne līċ. Atlas self ne cann þæt ġewiht. (Nothing is heavier than a dead body. Atlas himself knows not the weight.)
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Ne cūðe iċ hine wel, ac iċ cūðe hine oft. (I didn't know him well, but I knew him often.)
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Ælfric's Coloquy
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Hwylcne cræft canst þū? (What craft do you know?)
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c. 1005, Ælfric's Letter to Sigeweard
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Hū mæġ sē mann wel faran þe his mōd āwent fram eallum þissum bōcum, and biþ him swā ānwille þæt him lēofre biþ þæt hē libbe ǣfre be his āgnum dihte āsċīred fram þissum, swelċe hē ne cunne Cristes ġesetnessa?
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How can someone do well if they turn their mind from all these books [stuff that Ælfric wrote], if they're so stubborn that they would rather live their life always making their own separate judgments, as if they don't know the laws of Christ?
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Basilius, Bishop"
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Bide nu æt gode þæt ic grecisc cunne. (Pray now to God that I may know Greek.')
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Iċ cann ēow lǣran. (I can teach you.)
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Þrēo manna cynn sind: þā þe tellan cunnon and þā þe ne cunnon. (There are three kinds of people: those who know how to count and those who don't.)
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c. 897, Alfred the Great, translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
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Hēr man mæġ ġīet ġesēon heora swaðu, ac wē him ne cunnon æfter spyrian. (Here you can still see their footprints, but we don't know how to follow them.)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
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...and hē lēop sona cunniġende his fēðes hwæðer hē cūðe gān. (and he leapt up immediately, trying his power of motion, whether he could walk.)