Help with St. Augustine quote

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I recently got done reading “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” by John Locke.

I managed to take down a few notes, and a few quotes i liked.

One of the quotes i liked was from St. Augustine; “Si non rogas intelligo” which is translated in the book as “if you do not ask, I understand.”

However when i try to translate it myself on a free site i don’t get that at all, i get “if you wish not rogas understanding”

And even more puzzling to me is when i try to translate “if you do not ask i understand” into Latin i get “si vos operor non scisco ego agnosco”

Can anybody help me translating “si non rogas intelligo” from Latin to English. Or did John Locke have the translation correct?

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No, that’s right…

Si non rogas intellego

(si non rogas is the conditional, rogas is the indicative form of “to ask, interrogate”, intellego would be “I understand”)

So, yeah, “If you don’t ask, I understand”