迎え
むかえ
meeting, picking up
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Examples
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.
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.
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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