How to say "knowing" in Japanese

• 存知ぞんじCommon
  nounCovers the sense of knowing or being aware of something. It is the plain form, used in neutral statements about one's own or another's knowledge, without any honorific coloring.
• ご存知ごぞんじJLPT N4approx.Common
  nounAlso means knowing or being aware of something, but in sonkeigo, respectful language. Use it when referring to a superior's or other person's knowledge in polite conversation or writing.
  ご存知ぞんじだとは思おもいますが、クオーターしかつかえませんよ。↗

  This only takes quarters, you know.

Both words refer to knowing or being aware of something; use 存知 for plain reference, and 「ご存知」 when speaking respectfully, typically about someone of higher status.

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• 存知ぞんじknowing
• ご存知ごぞんじknowing
• 存知ぞんちknowing
• 了知りょうちknowing
• ノウknow
• 窺知きちinference
• 意味ありげいみありげmeaningful