sabe


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sabe

(ˈsɑːbeɪ)
n
sense or savvy
vb (tr)
to know
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You boys can go there for a general wash-up, rig yourselves up without saying anything, and then meander back careless and easy in your store clothes, just as the stage is coming in, sabe?"
Then how in thunder do they put it all over us, get our land, an' start accounts in the banks?' An' the only answer I know is that we ain't got the sabe. We don't use our head-pieces right.
We ain't got the sabe, or the knack, or something or other.
I asked, "Are they Indians?" -- "Quien sabe? (who knows?) if there are no more than three, it does not signify." It then struck me, that the one man had gone over the hill to fetch the rest of his tribe.
'Sa kanya kasi, it's a matter of fact, it's history and all, sabe ko in fairness alam ng anak ko.'
i) X sabe que el mismo, un hablante de espanol, es el usuario de "yo" (condicion pragmatica).