Saber or enterar
The word enterar means to find out and I have always read that saber when used in the preterite means to find out also. I if i wanted to say "I found out" in the preterite tense would there be a difference between these words or is one used more frequently?
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Yes, they don't have exactly the same meaning. If you say "Entonces supe", you mean that you found out something yourself. For example, you saw something that gave you the final clue to realize something on your own, without help.
If you say "me enteré", it means that someone had to tell you something, or at least that you had to see it spelled out for you in a book or something. In other words, you needed someone (or something) to fill you in to get that knowledge.
This is in theory though, you might see "supe" instead of "me enteré" sometimes and viceversa, but the difference is there.
