"Jag visste det!"

Translation: I knew it!

[Adelhaidar]

what is the difference between ''kände'' and ''visste''? don't they both mean ''knew''?

[Arnauti]

Jag kände honom = I knew him.
Jag kände det = I felt it.
Jag visste det = I knew it.

You can't use veta with people.

[ahbeetay5]

How would you say "I feel him" ?

[Svensktalande]

Conocer: att känna, saber: att veta på spanska.

[Billy903826]

I think so.

[SSilvamc]

That works, but it leaves out the "feel" sense of the verb känna. That would be "sentir"

[Sylvia136738]

And in German:
Ich kannte ihn,
Ich wusste es. :-)

[Byx-]

past tense of "vet" ? Or am I combining words here
It's 2am here and I'm studying at a Sharie's

[Adelhaidar]

tack!

[Vladvarg]

If you do french, it is like : "connaître" and "savoir"

Jag kände honom = Je le (him) connaissais

Jag visste det = Je le (it) savais

In english, you use the same word for the two of them in swedish and french. ;)

[Synthpopalooza]

And in Spanish, ser is to vet, as conocer is to känner.

[Sninguistics]

Ser is att vara, isn't it? Don't you mean saber?

[Synthpopalooza]

yes, saber. Thanks :) My Spanish is rusty.

[Sninguistics]

Varsågod! I nearly freaked out because I'm taking the Spanish course and I thought I leant the verbs completely wrong. ^^;;

[Synthpopalooza]

laughable thing is I am more fluent in Spanish than Swedish :)

[israellai]

funny how English is the odd one out

[Beanybadger]

We still have wise/wisdom/wit/advise, so I wouldn't be surprised if we used to have a verb version too

Edit: Wiktionary indicates that 'wise' is still a dialectical english word.