get to know

English

Verb

get to know (third-person singular simple present gets to know, present participle getting to know, simple past got to know, past participle (UK) got to know or (US) gotten to know)

1. (transitive) To become acquainted with (someone or something); to meet someone.
   • 23 October 1976, Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live‎^[1]:

     I'm not into that one-night thing. I think a person should get to know someone and even be in love with them before you use them and degrade them

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get,‎ know.

Translations

to become acquainted with someone

• Arabic: تَعَرَّفَ (taʕarrafa)
• Belarusian: знаёміцца impf (znajómicca), пазнаёміцца pf (paznajómicca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結識／结识 (zh) (jiéshí)

• Dutch: kennismaken (nl), leren kennen
• Esperanto: ekkoni
• Estonian: tutvuma
• Finnish: tutustua (fi)
• French: faire la connaissance (fr), faire connaissance (fr) (de)
• Georgian: გაცნობა (gacnoba)
• German: kennenlernen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (ufkunnan)
• Greek: γνωρίζω (el) (gnorízo)

  Ancient: γνωρίζω (gnōrízō)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: megismer (hu)
• Italian: conoscere (it), fare conoscenza
• Japanese: 知り合う (ja) (しりあう, shiriau)
• Latin: cognoscō (la), rescisco
• Persian: آشنا شدن (fa) (âšnâ šodan)
• Polish: poznać (pl)
• Portuguese: conhecer (pt)
• Romanian: face cunoștință
• Russian: знакоми́ться (ru) impf (znakomítʹsja), познакоми́ться (ru) pf (poznakomítʹsja)
• Spanish: conocer (es)
• Swedish: lära känna (sv)
• Ukrainian: знайо́митися impf (znajómytysja), познайо́митися pf (poznajómytysja)
• Vietnamese: làm quen (vi)