A l’heure qu’il est il doit savoir la nouvelle = By this time no doubt he has heard the news.
Savoir sur le bout du doigt = To know perfectly; To have at one’s finger-ends.
Savoir le fort et le faible de l’affaire = To know the ins and outs of the matter.
Savoir ce qu’en vaut l’aune = To know a thing to one’s cost.
Il a dusavoir vivre = He knows how to behave; He is well bred.
Borner Il faut savoir se borner = One must place limits on one’s desires.
Savoir Je ne sais comment cela est arrivé = I am at a loss to explain how it happened.
Il a beaucoup de savoir faire = He has his wits about him; He knows how to manage people.
With amazing savoirfaire he put up one hand for silence, dropped the roll, holding, of course, to the outer end and began reading.
He had long since learned that politeness andsavoir faire cost nothing.
Eugene had talent and determination, but no experience, no savoir faire, no circle of friends and acquaintances.
Service as a canvassing salesman, endeavoring to persuade recalcitrant wives and indifferent or conservative husbands to realize that they really needed a new machine in their home, had taught him caution, tact, savoir faire.
I can say truly, as Louise Colet said, "'Je fis mes premiers vers sans savoir les ecrire.
Perhaps; but just think of the lack of savoir faire that one finds here; the striving to do a thing correctly and missing it just sufficiently to ruin the effect.
Upset by the events of the afternoon, Lady Valleys had not shown her usual 'savoir faire'.
In later years his savoir faire enabled him to laugh at faith, but it stayed quietly with him all the same.
And having thus obeyed the obscure instincts of savoir faire, satisfied some obscurer desire to flatter, he went on: "My girl showed me your letter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savoir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
