connaître

Nous y connûmes une expérience désagréable.
We had an unpleasant experience there.
Puisque notre coeur fut unifié nous connûmes la richesse de la vie humaine et gardâmes du grand espoir pour notre futur.
As our heart was unified we knew the richness of human life and bore great hope for our future.
Ce fut le début de la grande guerre du charbon, et nous, les mineurs, connûmes le pire comme Joe l'avait prédit.
That was the start of the great Coalfield War and us miners took the worst of it, like Joe said we would.
Le 21 février, nous connûmes de nouvelles conditions de paix qui semblaient calculées pour rendre impossible la signature du traité.
On February 21, we received new terms from Germany, framed, apparently, with the direct object of making the signing of peace impossible.
Quand nous connûmes son ami la première fois, il souffrait de douleurs physiques dérivés probablement de problèmes mentaux originaires de la guerre contre Iraq.
When we met his friend for the first time he was suffering from physical pains that seemed to be derived from mental problems originated during the war with Iraq.
Après St. Petersbourg nous volâmes à Téhéran et notre coopérant local nous avait invité à dîner chez lui où nous connûmes ses familiers provenant de Kazakhstan et Allemagne.
After St. Petersburg we flew to Tehran and our local staff member had invited us to his home for dinner where we met his relatives coming from Kazakhstan and Germany.
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