出会う

Meaning

1. v5uvi
   to meet (by chance); to come across; to run across; to encounter; to happen upon
2. v5uvi
   to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.)
3. v5uvi
   to emerge and engage (an enemy)

Example sentences

• 未知の語に出会った時には、辞書で調べなければならない。

  When you come across new words, you must look them up in your dictionary.

• 僕たちが出会ったのはまったくの偶然でした。

  Our meeting was purely accidental.

• 彼女は僕と出会うたび微笑みかける。

  Whenever I meet her, she smiles at me.