This is the 829th most frequent Slovak word.
vedel
"Knew" (past tense of "know").
Here, 'vedel' shows past-tense ability or knowledge of doing something, emphasizing a skill the subject possessed.
On vedel riešiť zložité problémy.
He knew how to solve complex problems.
'Vedel' here is in the negative past tense 'nevedel', expressing a lack of knowledge about an event.
Nevedel som, že prídeš tak skoro.
I didn’t know that you were coming so early.
In this sentence, 'vedel' refers to conditional knowledge, illustrating something the subject would have done had they known.