coneixien

In a sentence

• Els meus avis coneixien totes les tradicions antigues del poble.

  My grandparents knew all the old traditions of the village.

  The word 'coneixien' here is used to express a past habitual state of knowing or being familiar with something (the traditions in this case).

• Quan van arribar, ja coneixien a molta gent de la festa.

  When they arrived, they already knew many people at the party.

  In this sentence, 'coneixien' is employed to denote a state of being acquainted with people at a specific point in the past.

• Els exploradors coneixien la dificultat del camí abans de començar.

  The explorers knew the difficulty of the path before starting.

  Here, 'coneixien' is used to indicate the explorers' awareness or familiarity with the difficulty of the path prior to commencing their exploration.