No. 829 in Slovak
vedel
"Knew" (past tense of "know").
In a sentence
On vedel riešiť zložité problémy.
He knew how to solve complex problems.
Here, 'vedel' shows past-tense ability or knowledge of doing something, emphasizing a skill the subject possessed.
Keby som to vedel, povedal by som ti.
If I knew that, I would have told you.
In this sentence, 'vedel' refers to conditional knowledge, illustrating something the subject would have done had they known.
Nevedel som, že prídeš tak skoro.
I didn’t know that you were coming so early.
'Vedel' here is in the negative past tense 'nevedel', expressing a lack of knowledge about an event.
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