Partez à la rencontre de la conjugaison de meet en anglais, mais également des définitions de ce verbe, ses synonymes, ses expressions et ses phrasal verbs !
Tableaux de conjugaison de meet en anglais
Conjugaison du verbe meet à l’indicatif
Le verbe meet au present simple
- I meet
- you meet
- he/she/it meets
- we meet
- you meet
- they meet
Le verbe meet au present continuous
- I am meeting
- You are meeting
- He/she/it is meeting
- We are meeting
- You are meeting
- They are meeting
Le verbe meet past simple
- I met
- You met
- He/she/it met
- We met
- You met
- They met
Le verbe meet au past continuous
- I was meeting
- You were meeting
- He/she/it was meeting
- We were meeting
- You were meeting
- They were meeting
Le verbe meet au present perfect
- I have met
- You have met
- He/she/it has met
- We have met
- You have met
- They have met
Le verbe meet au 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
Le verbe meet au past perfect
- I had met
- You had met
- He/she/it had met
- We had met
- You had met
- They had met
Le verbe meet au 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
Le verbe meet au future
- I will meet
- You will meet
- He/she/it will meet
- We will meet
- You will meet
- They will meet
Le verbe meet au 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
Le verbe meet au 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
Le verbe meet au 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
Conjugaison du verbe meet au conditionnel
Le verbe meet au conditional present
- I would meet
- You would meet
- He/she/it would meet
- We would meet
- You would meet
- They would meet
Le verbe meet au 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
Le verbe meet au 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
Le verbe meet au 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
Les autres formes
L’infinitif de meet
- to meet
Participe présent de meet
- meeting
Participe passé de meet
- met
L’impératif de meet
- meet
- let’s meet
À l’image de to make, to know, to feed, to come et to tell, to meet est un verbe irrégulier. Vous devez donc faire particulièrement attention aux terminaisons du passé.
Définition de meet en anglais
Que veut dire le verbe meet en anglais ?
Le Cambridge Dictionary donne plusieurs définitions du verbe meet.
Penchons-nous sur les principales :
1. To see and talk to someone for the first time
They met each other in California.
→ Ils se sont rencontrés en Californie.
2. To come together with someone intentionally
Let’s meet for dinner!
→ Retrouvons-nous pour dîner ensemble !
3. To come together with someone without intending to
I was walking home when I met them.
→ Je rentrais à la maison à pied quand je les ai croisés.
4. To fulfil, satisfy, or achieve
The food didn’t meet my expectations.
→ La nourriture n’était pas à la hauteur de mes attentes.
5. To pay
The government is ready to help poor families meet the cost of raising children.
→ Le gouvernement est prêt à aider les familles pauvres à prendre en charge les dépenses liées à l’éducation des enfants.
6. To wait at a place for someone or something to arrive
I’ll meet you at the train station.
→ Je viendrai te chercher à la gare.
7. To touch or join something
An estuary is where a river meets the sea.
→ L’endroit où se rencontrent une rivière et la mer s’appelle un estuaire.
8. To experience something
After the war, he met poverty.
→ Après la guerre, il a connu la pauvreté.
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Les phrasal verbs avec meet en anglais
Rappel : les phrasal verbs (ou “verbes à particule”) sont des verbes qui, lorsqu’ils sont suivis d’un autre mot (la particule), voient leur sens initial complété ou modifié.
Voici les principaux phrasal verbs formés sur le verbe meet :
- meet up → se retrouver, se voir (familier)
- meet up with somebody → se retrouver, retrouver quelqu’un (familier)
- meet with something → avoir (un accident, par exemple) ou rencontrer (une difficulté, parexemple)
- meet with something → recevoir (une réponse, une réaction…)
Les synonymes de meet en anglais
En fonction du contexte, vous pouvez remplacer le verbe to meet par l’un des verbes suivants :
- approach → s’approcher, se rapprocher
- collide → entrer en collision
- connect → relier, rapprocher
- encounter → rencontrer, tomber nez à nez
- foregather → se rassembler
- gather → se rassembler, se réunir
- join → rejoindre, retrouver
- muster → rassembler, regrouper
- unite → s’unir
Expressions avec meet en anglais
- make ends meet → joindre les deux bouts
- meet a deadline → finir dans les délais, respecter une échéance
- meet a sticky end (anglais britannique) → connaître une mort tragique
- meet face to face → se retrouver nez à nez
- meet somebody halfway → couper la poire en deux
- meet with somebody’s approval → recevoir l’approbation de quelqu’un
- meet your maker → passer l’arme à gauche
- meet your match → trouver un adversaire à sa taille (dans une compétition)
- pleased to meet you (interjection) → enchanté
