You run into someone you already know after a long gap. Start with Uzun zamandır görüşemedik, then ask how they are. This is a reunion, so a first-meeting introduction would feel out of place.
The idea
Uzun zamandır görüşemedik means “We haven’t managed to see each other for a long time.” Görüşmedik simply says you did not meet; görüşemedik adds that you could not, often suggesting a lack of opportunity. The “we” includes both people even when you address just one. With someone close, Seni çok özlemişim adds “I realise how much I missed you”: here -miş expresses a feeling noticed at the reunion, not a rumour.
Examples
- Uzun zamandır görüşemedik.We haven’t managed to see each other for a long time.
- Seni gerçekten çok özlemişim.I realise I’ve really missed you a lot.
- Sizi yeniden görmek güzel.It’s nice to see you again.
- Aylar oldu, nasılsın?It’s been months; how are you?
- Haklısın, en son kışın görüştük.You’re right, we last saw each other in winter.
- Bir ara kahve içelim mi?Shall we have coffee sometime?
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Watch out
Do not change the verb to görüşemediniz to sound polite: that makes the subject “you”, leaving the speaker out. Keep görüşemedik. For a respectful follow-up, use Sizi yeniden görmek güzel; save the more intimate Seni çok özlemişim for a relationship where that warmth fits.
Try it yourself
Greet someone after a long gap. Make a sentence from uzun zamandır and görüşemedik.
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Uzun zamandır görüşemedik / Görüşemedik uzun zamandır
Uzun zamandır görüşemedik / Görüşemedik uzun zamandır: the time phrase describes the whole gap up to this meeting; keeping uzun zamandır together makes that meaning clear.
You both wanted to meet, but your schedules never matched. Complete Bu yaz hiç ___: görüşmedik or görüşemedik?
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görüşemedik
görüşemedik: the two people wanted to meet but their schedules prevented it. Görüşmedik reports the absence of a meeting without expressing that obstacle.
Address your former teacher respectfully. Complete ___ yeniden görmek güzel: siz, sizi or seni?
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Sizi
Sizi: the former teacher is addressed respectfully and is the object of görmek. Siz is a subject form; seni would switch to familiar address.
At the reunion you realise how much YOU missed your friend. Complete Seni çok ___: özlemişim or özlemişsin?
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özlemişim
özlemişim: the speaker notices their own longing. Özlemişsin would say that the other person missed someone.
Practice round
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Greet someone after a long gap. Make a sentence from uzun zamandır and görüşemedik.
Uzun zamandır görüşemedik / Görüşemedik uzun zamandır
You both wanted to meet, but your schedules never matched. Complete Bu yaz hiç ___: görüşmedik or görüşemedik?
Address your former teacher respectfully. Complete ___ yeniden görmek güzel: siz, sizi or seni?
At the reunion you realise how much YOU missed your friend. Complete Seni çok ___: özlemişim or özlemişsin?
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
Tap the words in the right order.
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Write a four-line reunion between former neighbours: acknowledge the gap, respond, ask how things are, and suggest coffee. Then adapt the greeting for someone you address respectfully.