Questions & Answers about Что они знают о нас?
Why is the word for "us" нас instead of мы?
When you talk "about" someone or something, you use the preposition о followed by a special word form called the Prepositional case. The word нас is the Prepositional case form of the pronoun мы (we).
Why do we use о here instead of об?
You use о before words that start with a consonant, like the н in нас. You switch to об before words that start with a vowel to make pronunciation smoother, just like choosing between "a" and "an" in English.
Why does the verb знают end in -ют?
The dictionary form of the verb is знать (to know). Because the subject of the sentence is они (they), we drop the basic -ть ending and add the matching "they" ending, which is -ют.
How should I pronounce о нас?
Short prepositions like о are pronounced as if they are glued to the next word. You should say it smoothly as one single word. Because the о does not have the main stress here, it reduces to a short "a" sound, making the whole phrase sound like "a-NAS".
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