"Nous savons manger."

[hykatz]

No, savoir followed by an infinitive translates to "know how to"

[Joel-Iowan]

thank you. I guess my all-knowing abilities duo sometimes seems to think I have, fail.

[alphabeta]

I thought it was "we know to eat"... Wouldn't it need to be "nous savons comment manger" to match the translation?

[nabeela_s]

i thought also "we know to eat"

[sweet9J]

Where does the "how" come in? Urgh.

[juancamilog]

i thought it was nous avons mangé :(

[hykatz]

"Nous avons mangé" is past tense (we have eaten)

[juancamilog]

yeah, but is there any difference in pronunciation? How can one tell?

[hykatz]

"Nous avons" sounds like "noo zavon" and "nous savons" sounds like "noo savon". There's a distinct break in sounds in the latter, and a softer "s"

[koche005]

but how would you say "we know to eat well before a long hike"?

[E.T.s_Son]

OH GEEZ gimmie a break with these extra words that come out of know where! Really DUO? "We know 'how' to eat." Where the heck did this "how" come from? Now I know what "comment" means but I'm sure that would've been wrong! UGHH rolls eyes

[Eramance]

How I worked it out was remembering we are dealing with the present tense here. And manger would mean eat as in "eating". So taking that, I made " We know eating" out of the sentence, and "we know eating would" mean the same as "we know how to eat".

At least, that's how I worked it out.