No. 6,723 in Dutch
wist
"Wist" means "knew" in English.
In a sentence
Hij wist niet dat het gisteren regende.
He did not know that it rained yesterday.
In this sentence, 'wist' represents the past tense form of 'weten', which means 'to know'. It is used to indicate that the subject was unaware of information in the past.
Ik wist al dat ze zou komen.
I already knew that she would come.
Here, 'wist' again is the past tense of 'weten'. It implies that the subject already possessed the knowledge before the mentioned event or time.
Wat wist je over het onderwerp voordat je het studeerde?
What did you know about the subject before you studied it?
In this interrogative sentence, 'wist' in past tense is used to inquire about someone's knowledge prior to a particular action or situation.
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