ken
verb/ken/
/ken/
[intransitive, transitive] (Scottish English, Northern British English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ken | /ken/ /ken/ |
| he / she / it kens | /kenz/ /kenz/ |
| past simple kenned | /kend/ /kend/ |
| past participle kenned | /kend/ /kend/ |
| -ing form kenning | /ˈkenɪŋ/ /ˈkenɪŋ/ |
- ken (something) | ken (that)… | ken what, where, etc… to know Kent is the usual form of the past tense used in Scotland.Word OriginOld English cennan ‘tell, make known’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen ‘know, be acquainted with’, from an Indo-European root shared by can and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th cent.
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