møtes

Møtes is a Norwegian verb form used to express a reciprocal action: two or more people meet each other. It is the present tense form employed when the meeting is mutual, rather than a transfer of meeting someone specific. The base verb is møte, meaning “to meet” in a transitive sense (to meet someone).

In practice, møtes is used with the subject to indicate that the participants meet among themselves. Common examples include: Vi møtes hver torsdag i parken (We get together in the park every Thursday), Vi møtes senere (We will meet later), and De møtes på konferansen (They meet each other at the conference). The present tense form møtes also appears in the second-person plural and third-person plural: dere møtes, de møtes.

The simple past form is møttes, used to describe a meeting that occurred in the past: Vi møttes i går (We met each other yesterday), De møttes ved inngangen (They met each other at the entrance). The non-reciprocal form of the verb is møter, used when one person meets another person or something directly: Han møter henne hver uke (He meets her every week).

Møtes is commonly found in everyday speech and in formal scheduling language when indicating mutual attendance or social interaction. It is distinct from the non-reciprocal møtes meetings, where the action is not necessarily between the participants themselves, and from the infinitive møte, which governs direct meetings with a person or thing. Etymologically, møtes derives from the verb møte, related to Old Norse møta, meaning to encounter or meet.