"Wiesz, że twój parasol jest mokry?"
Translation:Do you know that your umbrella is wet?
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wiedzieć - to have knowledge or information about something
znać - to be familiar with something/somebody
Or, if you prefer, Wiedzieć = Savoir, Znać = connaître. Note also "Umieć", to know how to do something.
It separates a dependent clause from the main one. Że is a word that introduces dependant clause, so comma before it is expected in most usual sentences.
List of words that introduce dependent clauses, and comma is usually expected can be found here
Polish "parasol" can be the one that covers you from rain and the one that covers you from sun, so yeah, it should work. Added.
I would be very, very surprised if any native did that.
I feel that only the fact that one is learning from other languages (here, both verbs are translated as "to know") makes it even possible to confuse them. Or if you know Russian, for which both are знать. But natives, I believe, don't even think about any connection between those.
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I also know Belarusian which has a similar word to "wiedzieć" - ведаць. So I'm in a situation where I am familiar with both words, so it makes it even more confusing :)
And are they used differently in Belarussian? That of course makes things more confusing, if the languages are generally similar but then suddenly they differ ;)
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In modern Belarusian "znać" equivalent is barely used, although its derivatives are plenty. I almost feel like people chose to not use it to separate more from the Russian language. "Wiedzieć" equivalent is used for all cases.
So I kinda have to chose whether to use a Russian word or a Belarusian word...