How to Say ‘To meet you’ in German
Sie kennenzulernen
ZEE KEN-en-tsu-LEHR-nen
[ZEE KEN-en-tsu-LEHR-nen]
💬 Usage Tip: This is one of those German verb forms that often gets bundled at the end: [Sie kennenzulernen] = "to get to know/meet you." You can reuse the pattern after phrases like [schön, Sie kennenzulernen] or [ich freue mich, Sie kennenzulernen].
🇩🇪 In Germany: At a career event, this is polite and standard with new professional contacts; [Sie] is the expected form unless they clearly switch to [du].
Phrase Breakdown
Sie
[ZEE]
you
Formal singular or plural reference to one or more people being addressed.
Sie sind freundlich.
You are friendly.
kennenzulernen
[KEN-en-tsu-LEHR-nen]
to get to know
Meeting and becoming familiar with someone.
Es ist schön, Sie kennenzulernen.
It is nice to get to know you.
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