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chazaThreads: 49
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Joined: Dec 21, 09  Pictures: 1 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 10, 11:53    #1
what is the corredt usage for poznawać and spotykać. they both mean to meet, butn in what context.


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chaza
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Joined: Sep 20, 09 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 10, 12:53    #2
Spotykać = when you met someone you know it the club for example
Poznawać = when you meet someone for the first time
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 10, 12:58    #3
I'd also say that spotykać is more than once whereas spotkać (which takes się) is once.

E.g Często się spotykamy = We meet each other often

Spotkamy się w piątek = We are meeting on Friday
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Joined: Nov 16, 07 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 10, 13:40    #4
Poznać = to get to know

Cinek
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Joined: Jul 7, 10 ♀ 		 Jul 9, 10, 15:08    #5
Spotykać - to see someone, eg. I'm seeing my friend in an hour.

Poznawać - when people are introduced to each other and get to know each other

spotykać, poznawać - it is an iterative, repeated occurence of the same action

spotkać, poznać - one-occurence of the action, the action is completed
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 10, 19:19    #6
Think of spotykać of being like the present continuous in English. I am meeting my friend. Not in the sense of a continuous action we are doing now but more a fixed arrangement.

It contains perfective and imperfective when you introduce spotkać.


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