"כולם מכירים את המשטרה."

Translation: Everyone knows the police.

[lawrence2507]

Can I say "Everyone knows the police(wo)man" or does משטרה refer to the general idea of "the police force"?

[AmirLFC]

The latter. The former would be כולם מכירים את השוטר(ת).

[hazar1948]

If you mean policeman so it will be שוטר for the man and שוטרת for the woman and yup המשטרה is "the police force"

[Michael112818]

How to pronounce this?

[lawrence2507]

The other reply is close, but not quite. With niqqud, this is:

כּוּלָם מַכִּירִים אֶת הַמִשְׁטַרָה

Which is pronounced:

kulám makirím et hamishtará

[dorkami]

Is 'everyone' a normal translation for כולם?

[Ynhockey]

Yes.

[GalSan5]

The word "מכירים" isnt really "recognises", "מכירים" is more "(to) know (someone)" and recognise is "מזהים"

[pesach9]

I think the best definitions for מכירים would be either "familiar with" or "know of" because you can also use it for a place. Even though someone might ask in english. "Do you know the Jerusalem science museum?" Its not really proper english.

[ngarrang]

The audio won't play on this one for me. Anyone else having a similar problem?

[hazar1948]

There is no audio on this one in general

[ngarrang]

At the time, there was a speaker icon to click on, thus why I asked. I have encountered a bunch of times now where a speaker icon was present, but nothing would play.