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迎え

むかえ

meeting, picking up

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Examples

  1. 駅まで迎えに行きます。

    えきまでむかえにいきます。

    I'll go to the station to pick you up.

  2. 母が学校に迎えに来ました。

    ははががっこうにむかえにきました。

    My mother came to the school to pick me up.

  3. 空港までお迎えをお願いできますか。

    くうこうまでおむかえをおねがいできますか。

    Could I ask you to meet me at the airport?

Common patterns

迎えに行く
to go to pick someone up
迎えに来る
to come to pick someone up
お迎え
picking someone up (polite)

Memory tip

You will nearly always meet it inside 迎えに行く / 迎えに来る. The opposite direction — seeing someone off or walking them home — is 送り.

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