10 ways to say 'I don't know' in English

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Now, a couple of points to keep in mind. You can use this expression and combine it with present, past, or future tense. What do I mean? Well, you could say: "I don't know who usually goes to his parties." That's present tense. "I don't know who went to his party." Past tense. Or: "I don't know who is going to his party." Future tense. Right? So you can do this with all of these words; you can use it in the present, in the past or in the future.

And one last, very important point to keep in mind regarding the word "know", regarding the verb "know". The verb "know" is a stative verb. A stative verb means that you cannot use it in the continuous form. You can only use it in the simple form, like this. So you can only say: "I don't know", not: "I am not knowing." Many people in different parts of the world use, tend to use continuous forms for everything in English, but you have to be really careful not to use the continuous forms with stative verbs. "Know" is a very common stative verb; there are many others like it. So other than that, you're fine. You couldn't say - sorry -, you could also say: "I don't know" or "I didn't know". All right? So you could use this part, but remember not to change the verb "know".

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