entgegenkommen
German, verb
entgegenkommen is spelled E-N-T-G-E-G-E-N-K-O-M-M-E-N (14 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entgegenkommen is a German verb meaning “to come towards the face of something or someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Entgegenkommen is a different word: “accommodation, obligingness”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich frontal auf jemanden, etwas hinzubewegen”.
What does entgegenkommen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to come towards the face of something or someone
sich gegenseitig/einander auf halbem Weg entgegenkommen
- 2
to accommodate, comply with (a request, wishes etc.); to satisfy (a requirement, need)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of entgegenkommen
- 2
neuteraccommodation, obligingness
- 3
neuterconcession
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich frontal auf jemanden, etwas hinzubewegen 2. zum Vorteil von jemandem in seinen Forderungen nachgeben
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of entgegenkommen
- kommt entgegen present singular third-person
- kam entgegen past
- entgegengekommen participle past
- käme entgegen past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 4 strong
- entgegenkommend participle present
- entgegenzukommen infinitive infinitive-zu
- komme entgegen first-person indicative present
- kommen entgegen first-person indicative plural
- kommst entgegen indicative present second-person
- kommest entgegen second-person singular subjunctive
- kommet entgegen plural second-person subjunctive
- kamen entgegen first-person indicative plural
- kämen entgegen first-person plural subjunctive
- kamst entgegen indicative preterite second-person
- kamt entgegen indicative plural preterite
- kämest entgegen second-person singular subjunctive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to entgegenkommen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is entgegenkommen in German?
entgegenkommen appears 2.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).