you know

1. You are aware, you see, do you remember, as in She's very lonely, you know, so do go and visit, or You know, this exhibit ends tomorrow, or You know that black dog our neighbors had? She was run over a year ago. This phrase is also quite often a conversational filler, equivalent to “um” and occasionally repeated over and over (as in It's a fine day for, you know, the beach, and, you know, we could leave now); this usage is more oral than written, and many consider it deplorable. [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

“If somebody says ‘50501,’ you know they’re in the fight, you know they’re in the resistance,” Mazzuckelli, 52, said.

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“You know, it’s fun,” said Perry, who is nearly halfway to his point total of a season ago.

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He told the magazine: “Sometimes you’re in a group and you look around and you may not have the best suit or the best shoes or the best haircut, but you know there’s nobody in the room who can hold a candle to you; you were a New York detective.”

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"Before you know it, you are on the operating table having your prostate removed – and we see examples of that all the time," Prof Hamdy said.

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I’m not going to focus on whether or not you should cut her off because, frankly, it sounds like you know you should.

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