Questions & Answers about Eu não sei medir tempo.
In Portuguese, when one verb expresses ability / knowledge how to do something, it is usually followed by another verb in the infinitive (the “dictionary form”).
- saber + infinitive = to know how to (do something)
- Eu sei medir. = I know how to measure.
- Eu não sei medir tempo. = I don’t know how to measure time.
You cannot conjugate the second verb in this structure:
- ❌ eu não sei meço tempo
- ✅ eu não sei medir tempo
So medir must stay in the infinitive after sei here.
Yes.
Portuguese is a “null subject” language: the subject pronoun (like eu, I) is often omitted because the verb ending carries the information about the person.
- Eu não sei medir tempo.
- Não sei medir tempo.
Both mean exactly the same. Using eu can add slight emphasis to I in contrast to others (I don’t know how to measure time, maybe others do), but grammatically both are correct and natural.