conosco

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈno.sko/
• Rhymes: -osko
• Hyphenation: co‧nó‧sco

Verb

conosco

1. first-person singular present indicative of conoscere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Proto-Romance) IPA^(key): /koˈnosko/

Verb

conōscō (present infinitive conōscere, perfect active conōvī, supine conitum); third conjugation (Late Latin)

1. Alternative form of cognōscō (attested in the Vetus Itala)

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cunoscu
  • Megleno-Romanian: cunos
  • Romanian: cunoaște
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: cunnosce

    Sassarese: cunnisci

  • Italian: conoscere, conósciare (Old Arretine)
  • Neapolitan: canoscere (medieval), canósce (Matera)
  • Sicilian: cunùsciri, canùsciri
• North Italian:
  • Piedmontese: conòsse
  • ⇒ Romansch: encanoscher
  • Venetian: conosar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: conèixer
  • Old French: conoistre (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: conóisser, conéisser, conéisher
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: conoixer, conoxer, coneixer
  • Asturian: conocer
  • Spanish: conocer

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• connosco (European)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese conosco, cõnosco, connosco, from com (“with”) + Old Galician-Portuguese nosco (“with us”). Noscum is attested in the Appendix Probi as a 'vulgar' form of Latin nobiscum. Displaced Old Portuguese nosco.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈnos.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈnos.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koˈnoʃ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈnos.ko/

Adverb

conosco (Brazilian spelling)

1. (prepositional) with us

   Quer ir conosco?

   Want to go with us?

Usage notes

Brazilian speakers who use this pronoun colloquially (instead of a gente) may not make the contraction and use com nós instead. This is highly proscribed but common. Portuguese speakers use connosco instead.

Coordinate terms

• comigo
• consigo
• contigo
• convosco