ontmoeten

Sentences

Het is een
🅰️

eer u te ontmoeten .

It's an honor to meet you again.

Wij willen elkaar in het licht ontmoeten .

We wish to meet each other in full view and not as shadowy figures.

Ze willen je ontmoeten om de zaken te bespreken .

They want to meet you to discuss things.

Meaning

to meet
to encounter, come across

drop across

enconter

tegemoet treden

zich bevinden

aanboren

zich ophouden

لَقِيَ

encontrarse con

achar

🔍

اِلْتَقَى

يُلَاقِي

يَلْتَقِي

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɔntˈmu.tə(n)/

Inherited from Middle Dutch

Cognate with Low German

Cognate with Western Frisian

Cognate with English

Cognate with Danish

In summary

From Middle Dutch ontmoeten, untmuten, entmuten, from ont- + moeten. The latter verb is from Old Dutch *muoten, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”) and is unrelated to modern Dutch moeten (“to have to, must”). The unprefixed form is cognate to Low German möten, West Frisian moetsje, English meet, Danish møde.

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