get to know

English

get to know (third-person singular simple present gets to know, present participle getting to know, simple past got to know, past participle (UK) got to know or (US) gotten to know)

(transitive) To become acquainted with (someone or something); to meet someone.
- 23 October 1976, Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live‎:
  I'm not into that one-night thing. I think a person should get to know someone and even be in love with them before you use them and degrade them
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get,‎ know.

to become acquainted with someone

Arabic: تَعَرَّفَ (taʕarrafa)
Belarusian: знаёміцца impf (znajómicca), пазнаёміцца pf (paznajómicca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 結識／结识 (zh) (jiéshí)
Dutch: kennismaken (nl), leren kennen
Esperanto: ekkoni
Estonian: tutvuma
Finnish: tutustua (fi)
French: faire la connaissance (fr), faire connaissance (fr) (de)
Georgian: გაცნობა (gacnoba)
German: kennenlernen (de)
Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (ufkunnan)
Greek: γνωρίζω (el) (gnorízo)
Ancient: γνωρίζω (gnōrízō)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: megismer (hu)
Italian: conoscere (it), fare conoscenza
Japanese: 知り合う (ja) (しりあう, shiriau)
Latin: cognoscō (la), rescisco
Persian: آشنا شدن (fa) (âšnâ šodan)
Polish: poznać (pl)
Portuguese: conhecer (pt)
Romanian: face cunoștință
Russian: знакоми́ться (ru) impf (znakomítʹsja), познакоми́ться (ru) pf (poznakomítʹsja)
Spanish: conocer (es)
Swedish: lära känna (sv)
Ukrainian: знайо́митися impf (znajómytysja), познайо́митися pf (poznajómytysja)
Vietnamese: làm quen (vi)

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