A way to choose between wissen and kennen? I have been trying to find a simple rule to tell me when to use wissen and when to use kennen and I think I might have figured it out by making up french sentences in my mind, because french has two similarly opposing verbs. However, I would like to be sure I'm correct. One uses wissen to state that one knows a fact, hence an action, and that fact will always include a verb first and foremost, in a subclause. Ex.: "Ich weiß, dass du spät war". With "war" being the verb. The important part here is that one "knows the verb". One uses kennen to indicate that one knows a thing and is thus followed by a noun. Ex.: "Kennst die Name von diese Leute?". Here, "Name" signals the use of kennen. "Kennst du das Gefühl wenn man Schmetterlinge im Bauch hat?" does have a verb in it, but when asked "Was kennst du?" the answer is "Das Gefühl". So am I correct to say that one weiß a verb but kennt a noun?