met

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Pronunciation

enPR: met, IPA^(key): /mɛt/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

Verb

met

simple past and past participle of meet

Etymology 2

Verb

met

(obsolete) simple past and past participle of mete (to measure)
- [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
  Then Hector, Priam’s martial son, stepp’d forth, and met the ground,
  With wise Ulysses, where the blows of combat must resound;
  The spelling has been modernized.

Etymology 3

From Middle English meten (“to dream”), from Old English mætan (“to dream”).

Verb

met (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, simple past met, no past participle)

(obsolete, impersonal) To dream; to occur (to one) in a dream.
- c. 1653, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:
  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 example:

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-wolves live)

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

Anagrams

EMT, MTE, TEM, TME

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Alternative forms

moet (Cape Afrikaans)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛt/
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Preposition

met

with
- 1921, “Die Stem van Suid-Afrika”, C.J. Langenhoven (lyrics), M.L. de Villiers (music), South Africa:
  Met ons land en met ons nasie.
  With our land and with our people.

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛd/

Conjunction

met

but

Verb

met

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

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)

(most dialects) with

Derived terms

mem (contraction with the masculine and neuter definite article)

Determiner

met

what

Etymology

From Middle High German mit, from Old High German mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi. Cognate with German mit, Dutch met, Middle English mid, Icelandic með.

Preposition

met

(Sette Comuni, + dative) with

Derived terms

References

“met” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmɛt]
Homophone: med
Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

met n

genitive plural of meta

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛt/, /mɛ/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: met
Rhymes: -ɛt

Preposition

met

with, along with (another person)
with, using (a tool, instrument or other means)
at, for, during (a holiday/festivity)
Heb je zin om met kerst bij ons langs te komen?
Do you fancy visiting us for Christmas?
(telephony) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt met..."
Met Jan de Vries.
Hello, this is Jan de Vries.

Declension

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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

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Pronominal adverbs of met

Derived terms

metterdaad
metterdag
metterhaast
mettertijd
metterwoon
tot en met

Descendants

Berbice Creole Dutch: mete
Jersey Dutch: met, mät
Negerhollands: met, mi, mit, mee
Skepi Creole Dutch: met

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch met, from Proto-Germanic *matją, whence also German Mett (through Low German). Related with Proto-Germanic *matiz, whence English meat.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛt/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: met
Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

met n or m (uncountable)

(dated, Eastern Netherlands) mince (sometimes specifically uncooked)

Derived terms

metworst

Anagrams

tem

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meːʰt/

Noun

met n (genitive singular mets, plural met)

prestige, image, reputation, regard
record

Declension

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

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Derived terms

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

Etymology

me with the regular plural suffix -t.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmet/, [ˈme̞t̪]
Rhymes: -et
Hyphenation^(key): met

Pronoun

met (dialectal)

(personal) we

Synonyms

me (standard Finnish)
myö (dialectal)

Anagrams

emt

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛ/
Audio: (file)
Homophone: mets

Verb

met

third-person singular present indicative of mettre

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛːt/
Rhymes: -ɛːt

Noun

met n (genitive singular mets, nominative plural met)

scale (tool for weighing objects)
record (most extreme known value of some achievement)

Declension

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	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

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Declension of met (neuter)

Derived terms

heimsmet
metár
metsölubók
mettími
slá met

Alternative forms

mt — Internet slang

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmet/ [ˈmet]
IPA^(key): /ˈmɯt/ [ˈmɯt]

Particle

met or mët (Kur-itan spelling ᜋᜒᜆ᜔)

too; also
used to show mild dissaproval

References

Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000) “met”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎ (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN

Etymology

From Finnish me, from Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic *me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmet/

Pronoun

met

we

Declension

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Declension of met

	singular	plural
nominative	mie	met
genitive	minun	meiđän, meän
partitive	minnuu, minua	meitä
accusative	minun	meiđät, meät
illative	minhuun	meihin
inessive	minussa	meissä
elative	minusta	meistä
allative	minule, minulet, mulle, mullet	meile, meilet
adessive	minula, mulla	meilä
ablative	minulta, multa	meiltä
translative	minuna	meinä
essive	minuksi	meiksi
abessive	minutta	meittä

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References

Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

Etymology

From Hebrew מת (met).

Adjective

met (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מת)

dead

Synonyms

niftar

Verb

met

inflection of mest:
(with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of mest
(with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of mest

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /met/

Verb

met

Medial form of mete

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /met/

Preposition

met [with dative]

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

Related terms

mēde

Descendants

Dutch: met
Limburgish: mit

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /met/

Noun

met n

Synonym of ġemet (“measure”)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	met	metu
accusative	met	metu
genitive	metes	meta
dative	mete	metum

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Derived terms

metbielġ (“wallet”)
metcundlīċ (“metrical”)
metecorn (“apportion or allowance of grain”)
metġeard (“measuring stick, measuring rod”)
metrāp (“measuring rope, sounding line”)

Preposition

met

Alternative form of mid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьměti

Verb

met impf

to have

Derived terms

phrases

rådo met (literally “to like”)
tedone met (literally “to be dealing with”)

References

^{The template Template:R:pox:SejDp does not use the parameter(s): 3=5
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}Polański, Kazimierz (1973) “met”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 3 (ľǫ̇dü – perĕ), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 379
Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “met”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 94
Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Mêt”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 571

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɛt
Syllabification: met

Noun

met

genitive plural of meta

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛ́t/

Noun

mȅt m inan

throw (flight of a thrown object)

Inflection

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Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	mèt
gen. sing.	méta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mèt	méta	méti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	méta	métov	métov
dative (dajȃlnik)	métu	métoma	métom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	mèt	méta	méte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	métu	métih	métih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	métom	métoma	méti

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Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	mèt
gen. sing.	mêta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	mèt	mêta	mêti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	mêta	mêtov	mêtov
dative (dajȃlnik)	mêtu	mêtoma	mêtom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	mèt	mêta	mête
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	mêtu	mêtih	mêtih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	mêtom	mêtoma	mêti

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مد, from Arabic مَدّ (madd).

Noun

met (definite accusative meddi, plural metler)

flow
tide

Derived terms

met dalgası

References

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “met”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Noun

met (nominative plural mets)

(unit) metre

Declension

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	singular	plural
nominative	met	mets
genitive	meta	metas
dative	mete	metes
accusative	meti	metis
vocative ¹	o met!	o mets!
predicative ²	metu	metus

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declension of met

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Noun

met

food, meat in its old meaning.
Alternative form of maate (“meat”)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 31:
  Coome to thee met.
  Come to thy meat.
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 81:
  Zed met.
  Stewed meat.
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:
  Raree met in plathearès, ee-zet in a rooe,
  There was choice meat in platters, set in a row,

Derived terms

met-borde (“dining table”)

References

Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mət˧/

Noun

met

bug

References

Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41

	first	second	third anim	third anim or inan
singular	mie	sie	hän	se
plural	met	tet	het	net

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