Thom 🌈

[red palm]

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[deep vapor]

generally connaitre for nouns, savoir otherwise

connaitre is usually to know as in familiarity while savoir is to know in terms of knowing a fact about something

[bright oyster]

So I can replace "connaître" with "am familiar with"¿

[deep vapor]

i'm not sure what you mean

je connais un bon restaurant = i know a good restaurant

but know here means that you're familiar with the restaurant not that you know a fact about the world

this is more or less the sense of connaitre

savoir can also be used with a verb like "je sais nager" = I know how to swim

[bright oyster]

Je connais un bon restaurant -> I'm familiar with a good restaurant

Yes?

Is that a good way to differentiate when to use connaître vs savoir?

[warped coral]

In honesty, I'd follow more with the connaitre + noun/savoir + clause/pronoun distinction because the cases where this distinction of 'to know (intimately/in a familiar way)' of « connaitre » and 'to know (generally/factually)' of « savoir » tends to appear in really specific contexts

whereas if you go for « connaitre + nom / savoir + le reste », you'll get it right the vast majority of the time

[deep vapor]

read what i wrote again and i think you'll answer your own question