Usage Note
Savoir is knowing a fact or a skill, distinct from connaître, which is being acquainted with a person or place. As a noun le savoir means knowledge, and le savoir-faire crossed into English wholesale.
Examples
"Je sais nager."
Natural Translation
I know how to swim.

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