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むかえる
Meanings
Verb (1-dan, transitive)
1. to go out to meet
2. to receive; to welcome; to greet; to salute; to hail; to reach; to approach; to enter (a phase, era, etc.)
3. to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family)
4. to call for; to summon; to invite
5. to approach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.)
Alt. forms
迎むかえる
97%
むかえる
2%
邀むかえる
Pitch accent
む
かえる
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Conjugations...Used in: 338
Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
to meet; to greet
to approach (one's) death; to face (one's) death
to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak
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Examples (32 in total)
The summer was coming to an end.
I'll come at noon to pick you up.
Where do you want to celebrate New Year?
The cherry blossoms were at their best.
We are glad to have you in our class.
She greeted him waving her hand.
Hope you'll have a wonderful birthday.
Parker greeted him with a smile.
He ran off to meet his teacher.
His arrival was greeted with cheers.
We got a hostile reception from the villagers.
I never thought it would end like this.
His secretary greeted me.
The visitors were greeted with warm handshakes.
Please pick me up at the hotel at six o'clock.
My speech was greeted with cold silence.
We waved flags to welcome members of our baseball team.
The retail sector had a rough quarter.
He held out his hand to welcome us.
The family received me very warmly.
My colleagues welcomed me very warmly.
He rose from his chair to welcome me.
Art was in its golden age in Venice during the Renaissance.
I arranged for a car to meet you at the airport.
The astronauts were greeted with cheers and applause of an enthusiastic crowd.
The astronauts were greeted by their enthusiastic cheers and applause.
My father celebrated his seventieth birthday this year, but he's more energetic than I am.
Tom will be a hundred years old next year.
We had six guests to dinner.
Girls begin puberty around the ages of ten to eleven, and boys around the ages of eleven to twelve.
Cats go into heat two or three times a year.
Tom and Mary will have their 13th wedding anniversary soon.