My saber vs conocer answers are correct?

Question

1. Yo no SÉ nada de tu escuela.
2. ¿ SABES tú cuántos estudiantes? 3.¿ Conoces tú a muchos estudiantes? 4.¿ Conoces al director de la escuela? 5.¿ Sé si tiene muchas reglas? 6.¿ Sabes qué tipo de actividades extracurriculares hay en la escuela o communidad? 7.¿ Sabes tocar algún instrumento musical? 8.¿ Conoces muchos lugares bonitos adonde ir?
3. Quiero conozco toda la ciudad donde vives. Can you let me know if the Conocer and saber parts are right. Thank you and have a happy holidays and great new year.

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Answer 1

Hello windowman.

That's okay....I accept your apology...please, just be a little more sensitive in the way you ask/phrase questions in future!

Now, let's take a look at your sentences:

Yo no SÉ nada de tu escuela. ¿ SABES tú cuántos estudiantes? 3.¿ Conoces tú a muchos estudiantes? 4.¿ Conoces al director de la escuela? 5.¿ Sé si tiene muchas reglas? 6.¿ Sabes qué tipo de actividades extracurriculares hay en la escuela o communidad? 7.¿ Sabes tocar algún instrumento musical? 8.¿ Conoces muchos lugares bonitos adonde ir? Quiero conozco toda la ciudad donde vives. Can you let me know if the Conocer and saber parts are right. Thank you and have a happy holidays and great new year.

1.No sé nada de tu escuela Correct

I would avoid using the personal pronoun, if I were you! It is obvious who is not knowing since can only refers to 1st person singular: I

2.¿Sabes cuántos estudiantes hay? = Do you know how many students there are?

I would suggest adding the word hay = there is/there are

3¿Conoces tú muchos estudiantes? = Do you know many students?

I think you only use the personal 'a' when you are talking about knowing actual specific people eg: ¿Conoce a Juan? = Do you know John? Conoces a mis padres = You know my parents, but this next example is from the article on Saber vs conocer in the SpanishDict grammar section: No conocemos Madrid (We are not aquainted with Madrid. Please note, no personal 'a' used here!)

4.¿Conoces al director del colegio? Yes, I believe that this is correct. I am not sure if the Spanish use a different word for Headteacher in a Primary school, because they do differentiate between a teacher in a college. Teacher in Primary school maestro/maestra Teacher in high school/college/University = profesor.

5.¿ Sé si tiene muchas reglas? You have written: Do I know if he has (or it has?) many rules? Why are you asking yourself this question?

This one is not correct and does not make much sense! What are you trying to say in this one, please?

Do you mean: ¿ Sabes si tienen muchas reglas? = Do you know if they have many rules?

6.¿ Sabes qué tipoS de actividades extracurriculares hay en la escuela o la communidad? You need to add an S to the end of tipo to pluralise it because the word actividadeS is also in the plural = Do you know what typeS of extra-curricular activitieS there are (they have) in the school or in the community? I would suggest changing hay for tienen = they have.

7.¿ Sabes tocar algún instrumento musical? = Do you know how to play any musical instrument? This is correct

8.¿ Conoces muchos lugares bonitos adonde ir? I think you were trying to say: Do you know many lovely (beautiful) places where you can go?

¿ Conoces muchos lugares bonitos donde puedes ir? = Do you know many lovely (beautiful) places where you can go?

Quiero conoCER toda la ciudad donde vives. = I want to know the whole city where you live. You always conjugate the verb in a series of two or more, but not the second one which is left in the infinitive! ex's: Quisiera comprar un coche. = I would like to buy a car. Sometimes you may have situations where more than two verbs are used in succession: Quieren aprender a hablar bien el español = They want to learn how to speak Spanish well.

I hope this helps

Corrijan mi español si es necesario, por favor

Thank you very much. - windowman, Dec 18, 2015

P.S. I did not create the questions, it was a paragraph from a text book and it was fill in the blanks for concer and saber. I was doing it to study for a test I have tomorrow and part of it is Conocer vs saber. Sorry for the sentences that made no sense. - windowman, Dec 18, 2015

That's okay, Windowman...I am sure that your Spanish will improve with practice! ;) - FELIZ77, Dec 18, 2015

Answer 2

On the third paragraph where you say: "Quiero conozco-----" it should be "Quiero conocer......" The rest of the items have been dealt with quite well by Feliz77.

Thank you Daniela. I answered this question when I was tired and I obviously missed the sentence you commented on, I didn't even notice it .... weird isn't it? Had I seen it, I would have corrected it! ;) - FELIZ77, Dec 18, 2015

Answer 3

Hello window man

I think I remember helping you before....your name seems familiar.

I would like to encourage you to take a minute to think how to write your question in a more respectful way

My saber vs conocer questions are correct?

I do not know where you are learning Spanish (school, or college) or who your teacher is, but I hope you do not show thé same lack of respect to your teacher/s as you do to us when you ask questions in this forum!

I would suggest a more respectful way would be to say:

Would you/somebody please tell me if my saber vs conocer questions are correct?

Please remember that people are offering help here voluntarily ...nobody is paid! We are not running a paid, professional service

I have noticed that you did write thank you and you wished everybody a happy holiday Thank you. ..we hope you also enjoy a lovely Christmas .. Thank you for reading this

Sorry if that was rude, I did not think of it that way. Can you please tell me if my answers are correct, thank you. - windowman, Dec 18, 2015

No worries, please read my other post, windowman ;) - FELIZ77, Dec 18, 2015