Use karşılaşmak for coming across a person or a situation. A meeting may be unexpected; a difficulty may also be anticipated. The table gives forms for “I” and “we”.
The idea
The person or situation encountered takes ile or its attached form: komşumla, bir sorunla. With pronouns, use benimle, seninle, onunla. The verb keeps its stem karşılaş- in karşılaşıyorum and karşılaşırım. An arranged meeting is usually expressed with buluşmak; karşılaşmak alone does not say that anyone arranged it.
| Form | I | We |
|---|---|---|
| Present continuous | karşılaşıyorum | karşılaşıyoruz |
| Aorist / habitual | karşılaşırım | karşılaşırız |
| Past | karşılaştım | karşılaştık |
| Future | karşılaşacağım | karşılaşacağız |
| Negative present continuous | karşılaşmıyorum | karşılaşmıyoruz |
| Negative past | karşılaşmadım | karşılaşmadık |
| Past question | karşılaştım mı? | karşılaştık mı? |
| If I / if we encounter | karşılaşırsam | karşılaşırsak |
Examples
- Dün komşumla karşılaştım.I ran into my neighbour yesterday.
- Koridorda seninle karşılaştık.We ran into you in the corridor.
- Yine aynı sorunla karşılaştık.We encountered the same problem again.
- Bu tür hatalarla sık sık karşılaşıyorum.I often encounter errors of this kind.
- Yeni projede bazı güçlüklerle karşılaşacağız.We will encounter some difficulties in the new project.
- Daha önce böyle bir tepkiyle karşılaşmadım.I have never encountered a reaction like this before.
- Onunla karşılaşırsan toplantıyı hatırlat.If you run into them, remind them about the meeting.
- Konukları kapıda karşıladık.We welcomed the guests at the door.
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Watch out
Do not turn the person into a direct object: say seninle karşılaştım, not seni karşılaştım. By contrast, seni karşıladım means “I welcomed you / met you on arrival”. The extra ş changes the verb and the way its complement is formed.
Try it yourself
Complete in the past for “I”: yesterday I ran into an old friend at the stop.
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karşılaştım
karşılaştım: the encounter happened yesterday, and the speaker is “I”. After the voiceless ş, the past ending begins with t; final -m identifies the speaker.
Use the future for “we”: we will encounter some difficulties in the new project.
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karşılaşacağız
karşılaşacağız: the subject is “we” and the difficulties lie ahead. The future ending takes a after this stem; its k becomes ğ before the vowel of the person ending.
Complete with the form of “you” needed here: I ran into you just now.
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seninle / senin ile
seninle or senin ile: the person encountered is “you”. This pronoun uses senin before ile, so simply adding -le to sen does not give the standard written form.
Choose the verb for welcoming guests, then use the past for “we”.
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karşıladık
karşıladık: we received the guests at the door. Konukları names the people welcomed as a direct object, so the verb is karşılamak, with past -dı and “we” -k.
Practice round
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Complete in the past for “I”: yesterday I ran into an old friend at the stop.
Use the future for “we”: we will encounter some difficulties in the new project.
Complete with the form of “you” needed here: I ran into you just now.
seninle / senin ile
Choose the verb for welcoming guests, then use the past for “we”.
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Tap the words in the right order.
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Write about one chance encounter and one difficulty you expect. Then describe welcoming a guest with karşılamak. Check the person or situation attached to each verb.