"I do not know his number."
Translation:Nie znam jego numeru.
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As the English wiktionary says:
znać - to know somebody/something (be acquainted or familiar with)
wiedzieć - to know (be certain or sure about something)
While this is true , when you look closely you will find holes in this theory.
the difference between znać i wiedzieć is also in what follows them .
Znać + kogoś/coś ( a noun in accusative)
wiedzieć+ a phrase or about sth
You can't say "Nie wiem jego numeru". You should say "Nie wiem, jaki jest jego numer" or similarly.
Sometimes liczba is listed as sinonym with numer. Is this not true when talking about a phone number?
Both are translated as "number", but:
liczba is an abstract entity in mathematics, it's the grammatical number, and the amount of something countable.
numer is "used to show the rank of something in a list or sequence", so it's a house/flat/room number, a number on your locker, on a footballer's shirt, also a telephone number.
Technically, without a clear context, "liczby" could be okay here... but maybe let's stick to "numeru".
Czym miałaby być "jego liczba"? Nawet jeśli technicznie rzecz biorąc jest to poprawne tłumaczenie, myślę że ze względu na bardzo ograniczony kontekst w którym byłoby poprawne lepiej jest je odrzucić. Na 99% chodzi tu o numer telefonu, ewentualnie 'numerek' jak w kolejce na poczcie.
Third person possessives are: jego=his, jej=her and ich=their. Go is an object pronoun, in most contexts translated as him.