No. 743 in Hebrew
ידעתי
"I knew" or "I have known."
In a sentence
ידעתי שזו התשובה הנכונה.
I knew that this was the correct answer.
Here, 'ידעתי' is used in the past to indicate that the speaker was aware of a fact or answer.
לא ידעתי שאתה מגיע היום.
I did not know you were coming today.
'ידעתי' in this sentence is negated to convey the speaker's lack of knowledge in the past about someone's arrival.
ברגע הראשון שראיתי אותך, ידעתי שנהיה חברים טובים.
The moment I saw you, I knew we would be good friends.
In this context, 'ידעתי' expresses a strong intuition or feeling the speaker had in the past.
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