met

See also: Met, MET, mét, mèt, mệt, met-, and -met

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: met, IPA^(key): /mɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

From Middle English meten (“to dream, see in a sweven”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).

Verb

met (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past met, past participle -)

1. (obsolete) To dream.
   • William Cartwright (1651)

     All night me met eke that I was at Kirke.

Usage notes

• Met is a defective, impersonal verb, and as such it only occurs in the past tense, for exampleː

Me met that I was walking in a wondrous wood where a thousand wild wolfins live. (I dreamt that I was walking in a wondrous forest where a thousand wild she-wolfs live)

• However, in Old English and Middle English this verb was not defective and was used both personally and impersonally. Howbeit, in northern rural dialects, where it is still in use, this verb only occurs in the past tense and in impersonal constructions.

Etymology 2

Verb

met

1. simple past tense and past participle of meet
2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of mete (to measure)

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Statistics

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: able · five · need · #394: met · boy · c. · strong

Anagrams

• EMT, MTE, TEM

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Afrikaans

Preposition

met

1. with

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Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛd/

Conjunction

met

1. but

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Catalan

Verb

met

1. third-person singular present indicative form of metre
2. second-person singular imperative form of metre

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Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• mot, möt (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German mit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /met/ (most dialects)
• IPA^(key): /mɛt/ (few dialects)

Preposition

met (+ dative)

1. (most dialects) with

Derived terms

• mem (contraction with the masculine and neuter definite article)

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Chuukese

Determiner

met

1. what

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/
• Homophone: med
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

met

1. genitive plural of meta

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Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch mit, variant of *midi (from which mee, mede), from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛt/, /mɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

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Preposition

met

1. with, along with (another person)
2. with, using (a tool, instrument or other means)
3. at, for, during (a holiday/festivity)

   Heb je zin om met kerst bij ons langs te komen?

   Do you fancy visiting us for Christmas?

Inflection

Pronominal adverbs of met

preposition	met
postpositional adv.	mee
+ het (it)	ermee
+ dit (this)	hiermee
+ dat (that)	daarmee
+ wat (what)	waarmee
+ iets (something)	ergens mee
+ niets (nothing)	nergens mee
+ alles (everything)	overal mee

Derived terms

• tot en met

Anagrams

• tem

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːʰt/

Noun

met n (genitive singular mets, plural met)

1. prestige, image, reputation, regard
2. record

Declension

Declension of met
n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	met	metið	met	metini
accusative	met	metið	met	metini
dative	meti	metinum	metum	metunum
genitive	mets	metsins	meta	metanna

Derived terms

• heimsmet (world record)
• metár (record year), metsølubók (bestseller), mettíð (record time)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet/
• Hyphenation: met

Pronoun

met

1. (personal, dialectal, including Kven) we

Synonyms

• me (standard Finnish)
• myö (dialectal)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/
• Homophone: mets

Verb

met

1. third-person singular present indicative of mettre

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛːt

Noun

met n (genitive singular mets, nominative plural met)

1. record (most extreme known value of some achievement)

Declension

declension of met

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	met	metið	met	metin
accusative	met	metið	met	metin
dative	meti	metinu	metum	metunum
genitive	mets	metsins	meta	metanna

Derived terms

• heimsmet
• metár
• metsölubók
• mettími
• slá met

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Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew מת‏ (met).

Adjective

met ? (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מת‏)

1. dead

Synonyms

• niftar

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Latvian

Verb

met

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of mest
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of mest
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of mest
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of mest
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of mest
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of mest

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Lojban

Rafsi

met

1. rafsi of mentu.

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /met/

Preposition

met [+dative]

1. with
2. by means of, using (a tool, material etc.)
3. at the same time as, at
4. with, under circumstances of
5. concerning

Related terms

• mēde

Descendants

• Dutch: met
• Limburgish: mit

Further reading

• “met (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “met (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Old Saxon

Preposition

met

1. Alternative form of mid

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Polish

Noun

met

1. genitive plural of meta

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ́t/
• Tonal orthography: mȅt

Noun

mèt m inan (genitive méta or mêta, nominative plural méti or mêti)

1. throw (flight of a thrown object)

Declension

Declension of mèt (masculine inan., hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	mèt	méta	méti
accusative	mèt	méta	méte
genitive	méta	métov	métov
dative	métu	métoma	métom
locative	métu	métih	métih
instrumental	métom	métoma	méti

Declension of mèt (masculine inan., hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	mèt	mêta	mêti
accusative	mèt	mêta	mête
genitive	mêta	mêtov	mêtov
dative	mêtu	mêtoma	mêtom
locative	mêtu	mêtih	mêtih
instrumental	mêtom	mêtoma	mêti

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Turkish

Noun

met (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. flow
2. tide

Derived terms

• met dalgası

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Volapük

Noun

met (plural mets)

1. (unit) metre

Declension

declension of met

	singular	plural
nominative	met	mets
genitive	meta	metas
dative	mete	metes
accusative	meti	metis
predicative	metu	metus
vocative	o met!	o mets!

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Yola

Noun

met

1. food

Derived terms

• met-borde (“dining table”)

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)