#4 What does 会う mean? ~ Japanese kanji~

2018. 12.17

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So today's kanji is 会う

Reads: a-u
Means: to meet, to see

How to write 会👇👇
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Ex.

1. Have you ever seen him?
彼 に 会った こと (が) ある?
/kare ni a-tta koto (ga) aru?/

The grammar of this sentence is a little confusing.

But that's ok, I'll explain all.

👉彼(かれ, kare)
This means "he"

And 彼に(kare ni), this means "him"

For example,

・I write to him
...彼に手紙を書く

→手紙(てがみ, tegami) means a letter
→書く(か-く, ka-ku) means to write

👉会ったこと(が)ある

This is one of the most difficult phrases in Japanese grammar.

To begin with, this means like "I have seen him (before)"

If you want to say just "I saw him", you say "彼に会った"

So how does "ことがある" work?

It's used when we mention our experiences.

If you put "ことがある" after past-form verbs, you meam like "I had the experience that I saw him", right?

But in English, you can just say "I've seen him before"

So just remember that if you put "ことがある" after past-form verbs, you mean to mention your experience.

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I explain about "ことがある" in more detail.

You don't have to read and understand all.

"ことがある" can be divided into three parts:
"こと が ある".

I explain each part.

・こと(koto)

This means "stuff" or "thing". This is very abstract.

When it's used like "会った こと が ある", こと makes "会った" to be "thing".

Consider 会った as one experience, which thing called experience.

So 会ったこと, this means the "experience that I saw/met"

・ある(aru)

This means to exist, and is used for only things, not animals.

For animals we use いる(iru)

So 会ったことがある means "the experience of my meeting/seeing exists"

This is very unnatural English, but the meaning is almost correct.

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So 彼に会ったことがある means "I've seen him before"

And 彼に会ったことがある？ means "have you ever seen him?

So that's all today.

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