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encuentro

meeting, encounter

noun en-KWEN-troh Common

Also means

match, game

Usage Note

Encuentro covers both a planned meeting and an unexpected chance meeting — context distinguishes them. In sports, un encuentro is a match or fixture. It also doubles as the first-person singular present of encontrar ('I find'), so the sentence encuentro libros is a verb, not a noun.

Examples

"El encuentro fue muy productivo."

Natural Translation

The meeting was very productive.

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