"Wissen Sie es?"

Translation: Do you know it?

[Sinfieldd]

Why does this use "ss" instead of "ß"?

[DerAndereLerner]

The preceding vowel is short.

[ACardAttack]

Wissen isn't irregular when "congjuating" for "you formal",. you really don't conjugate it at all

[KansasBurri]

What is the difference between weiß, wissen and kennen?

[alvesgrafael]

If I am not wrong..

Weiß is used for things and facts, in the sense of knowledge, like: "I know that you are rich."
Wissen is just a conjugation of the verb Weiß for Sie and Ihr.
And Kennen is used when you know/rememeber someone or something, like: "I know him"

Sorry about the English. I'm still learning too.

[Pi_PCava]

Actually, weiß is a conjugation of wissen in the first person of singular. But the rest of your explanation is correct. I bet you're Brazilian too, judging by your name and the apology about your English. Only we Brazilians do that lol.

[Seolferwulf]

What is the 'es' for? Would it not be just 'Wissen Sie'? Danke.

[tu.8zPhLD72zzoZN]

Duolingo also accepts "Do you know it?"

[hwanghaedo]

Then how do you say: "Do they know?"

[Levi]

@hwanghaedo: "Do they know?" = Wissen sie?
Remember that 'Sie' is for formal 'you' .

[Jetsetterd]

I can never tell the difference between she they you

[tu.8zPhLD72zzoZN]

For you "Sie" is capitalized and for they" not capitalized with the conjugation "wissen"
The verb conjugation is different for she: "Weiß sie es?"

[reconnoisance]

Wissen Sie es?
I wonder for the last es
Instead of Do you know?would be Do you know it?

[Levi]

Yes, I believe "Do you know it?" would also work.

[Mustafa_hussein]

"Do you know that" wasn't correct and "that" is one of the words in the hovering drop-down list of the word "es"

[Sk0rp4N]

I think it sounds like the lady says "Wissen Sie das"? Anyone else?

[qwerty284651]

I agree, as well.

[French_Bunny]

For "Wissen sie es ?", Duo just gives enough words to write "Do you know ?" without the final"it". I do not understand how/why "Do you know IT ?" is not the best translation...

[ACardAttack]

I would like to know this too...does the "es" have to be added? Would in speech most Germans drop the "es" like Americans would drop the "it" (or at least can it be dropped?"

[tu.8zPhLD72zzoZN]

What is above is one accepted translation and not necessarily the best translation. "Do you know it?" is also accepted as correct.

[Stu-o-Linguo]

Any reason why it didn't accept 'do you know that'?

[BlairScots]

Oh yeah! Capital "Sie"! Got it!

[haleygrace]

Yea!!!

[Scotty961538]

But I know if you have a noun straight after saying you know (something) then it is Kennen (also for people) for example, ich kenne diesen Mann, but think if you say that or it after know you can use kennen or wissen?

[greg.sandy]

According to my dictionary " Collens concise 5th addition" page 390 wissen is " To Know". So where does the "Do" come from or is this one of those magical words that appear now and then.

[Seolferwulf]

That's just how we ask the question in English, if you translated it literally it would be "know you it?", which obviously isn't good English.

[JuratePas]

http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-german-verb-wissen.html

Präsens

ich weiß
du weißt
er/sie/es weiß
wir wissen
ihr wisst
Sie wissen

[qwerty284651]

one can also use this site: https://www.verbformen.com/conjugation/wissen.html

[boayadmoha]

its supposed to be written bu Deutsch