"Lei aveva saputo andare su due ruote."

[siebolt]

To me it sounds "Lei mi aveva ..." And that is not the first time such a thing happens. In this sentence it would be nonsense so I just ignore it but in other phrases the result is a good expression, so I write down "lei mi etc." and then I lose a heart. Use feedback.

[Blomeley]

Yeah it is a common that I can hear an extra "mi" in some sentences. Because I try to answer the questions without looking at the words it causes me some problems too. I'll report this one too.

[J.Franchomme]

The sound is not perfect, it is possible to understand but it sounds weird as if there was a word after 'Lei', like :'Lei le aveva saputo andare su due ruote'.

[webMan1]

How can I know that the "how" is implied?

[Blomeley]

Sapere + infinitive, means "to know how to"
eg "Tu sai leggere" is "You know how to read".

[Koolkaren]

Wouldn't this mean 'She had known....'? I thought 'She knew......' would be 'Lei ha saputo.....'.

[Blomeley]

I think you might be right. If I was translating into Italian I would translate it as "Lei sapeva andare su..." as the imperfect tense implies a continuous knowledge. I thought that the perfect tenses indicated a point in time where the knowledge was completed, closer to "She had found out..." rather than "She knew...".