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Tablas de conjugación de meet en inglés
Conjugación del verbo meet en indicativo
Verbo meet en present simple
- I meet
- you meet
- he/she/it meets
- we meet
- you meet
- they meet
Verbo meet en present continuous
- I am meeting
- You are meeting
- He/she/it is meeting
- We are meeting
- You are meeting
- They are meeting
Verbo meet past simple
- I met
- You met
- He/she/it met
- We met
- You met
- They met
Verbo meet en past continuous
- I was meeting
- You were meeting
- He/she/it was meeting
- We were meeting
- You were meeting
- They were meeting
Verbo meet en present perfect
- I have met
- You have met
- He/she/it has met
- We have met
- You have met
- They have met
Verbo meet en present perfect continuous
- I have been meeting
- You have been meeting
- He/she/it has been meeting
- We have been meeting
- You have been meeting
- They have been meeting
Verbo meet en past perfect
- I had met
- You had met
- He/she/it had met
- We had met
- You had met
- They had met
Verbo meet en past perfect continuous
- I had been meeting
- You had been meeting
- He/she/it had been meeting
- We had been meeting
- You had been meeting
- They had been meeting
Verbo meet en future
- I will meet
- You will meet
- He/she/it will meet
- We will meet
- You will meet
- They will meet
Verbo meet en future continuous
- I will be meeting
- You will be meeting
- He/she/it will be meeting
- We will be meeting
- You will be meeting
- They will be meeting
Verbo meet en future perfect
- I will have met
- You will have met
- He/she/it will have met
- We will have met
- You will have met
- They will have met
Verbo meet en future perfect continuous
- I will have been meeting
- You will have been meeting
- He/she/it will have been meeting
- We will have been meeting
- You will have been meeting
- They will have been meeting
Conjugación del verbo meet en condicional
Verbo meet en conditional present
- I would meet
- You would meet
- He/she/it would meet
- We would meet
- You would meet
- They would meet
Verbo meet en conditional present continuous
- I would be meeting
- You would be meeting
- He/she/it would be meeting
- We would be meeting
- You would be meeting
- They would be meeting
Verbo meet en conditional perfect
- I would have met
- You would have met
- He/she/it would have met
- We would have met
- You would have met
- They would have met
Verbo meet en conditional perfect continuous
- I would have been meeting
- You would have been meeting
- He/she/it would have been meeting
- We would have been meeting
- You would have been meeting
- They would have been meeting
Otras formas
El infinitivo de meet
- to meet
Participio presente de meet
- meeting
Participio pasado de meet
- met
El imperativo de meet
- meet
- let’s meet
Al igual que to make, to know, to feed, to come y to tell, to meet es un verbo irregular. Por eso hay que prestar especial atención a las terminaciones en pasado.
Definición de meet en inglés
¿Qué significa el verbo meet en inglés?
El Cambridge Dictionary ofrece varias definiciones del verbo meet.
Veamos las principales:
1. To see and talk to someone for the first time
They met each other in California.
→ Se conocieron en California.
2. To come together with someone intentionally
Let’s meet for dinner!
→ ¡Vamos a cenar juntos!
3. To come together with someone without intending to
I was walking home when I met them.
→ Iba caminando hacia casa cuando me crucé con ellos.
4. To fulfil, satisfy, or achieve
The food didn’t meet my expectations.
→ La comida no estuvo a la altura de mis expectativas.
5. To pay
The government is ready to help poor families meet the cost of raising children.
→ El gobierno está dispuesto a ayudar a las familias pobres a sufragar los gastos de educación de sus hijos.
6. To wait at a place for someone or something to arrive
I’ll meet you at the train station.
→ Te recogeré en la estación.
7. To touch or join something
An estuary is where a river meets the sea.
→ El lugar donde un río desemboca en el mar se llama estuario.
8. To experience something
After the war, he met poverty.
→ Tras la guerra, experimentó la pobreza.
Para consultar la página completa del Cambridge Dictionary, haz clic aquí.
Phrasal verbs con meet en inglés
Recordatorio: los phrasal verbs (o “verbos con partícula”) son verbos que, al ir seguidos de otra palabra (la partícula), completan o modifican su significado original.
Estos son los principales phrasal verbs basados en el verbo meet:
- meet up → encontrarse, verse (coloquial)
- meet up with somebody → quedar con alguien (coloquial)
- meet with something → tener (un accidente, por ejemplo) o encontrar (una dificultad, por ejemplo)
- meet with something → recibir (una respuesta, una reacción…)
Sinónimos de meet en inglés
Según el contexto, se puede sustituir el verbo to meet por uno de los siguientes verbos:
- approach → acercarse, aproximarse
- collide → chocar, colisionar
- connect → conectar, unir
- encounter → encontrar, toparse con
- foregather → reunirse
- gather → reunirse
- join → unir, encontrar
- muster → juntar, reunir
- unite → unirse
Expresiones con meet en inglés
- make ends meet → llegar a fin de mes
- meet a deadline → terminar a tiempo, cumplir un plazo
- meet a sticky end (inglés británico) → encontrar un final difícil
- meet face to face → encontrarse cara a cara
- meet somebody halfway → llegar a un acuerdo
- meet with somebody’s approval → recibir la aprobación de alguien
- meet your maker → conocer a tu creador
- meet your match → encontrar un adversario adecuado (en una competición)
- pleased to meet you (interjección) → encantado de conocerle