To sign 'met', start with both hands in '1' handshapes, with your index fingers pointing straight up and your other fingers curled into your palms. Position your hands a few inches apart in front of your chest, with your palms facing each other. Bring your hands together until the knuckles of your curled fingers and the sides of your index fingers touch.
In ASL, verbs don't change form for the past tense. You will use the sign for 'meet' and rely on the time sign 'yesterday' to indicate that the action already happened.
Bring your two index fingers together in the center of your chest to represent two individuals coming together, capturing the core meaning of the English word.
Sign 'meet' while raising your eyebrows and leaning slightly forward to indicate that you are asking a yes/no question.
In ASL, verbs don't change form for the past tense. You will use the sign for 'meet' and rely on the time sign 'yesterday' to indicate that the action already happened.
Bring your two index fingers together in the center of your chest to represent two individuals coming together, capturing the core meaning of the English word.
Sign 'meet' while raising your eyebrows and leaning slightly forward to indicate that you are asking a yes/no question.
No, ASL does not conjugate verbs for tense like English does. You use the exact same sign for 'meet' and 'met'. To show that the meeting happened in the past, you simply add a time sign like 'yesterday' or 'past' at the beginning of your sentence.
No, this specific sign is used for the action of people meeting each other. If you are referring to a gathering or a business 'meeting' (the noun), there is a different sign where the hands open and close together.
In the standard sign, both hands move toward each other to meet in the middle, showing a mutual meeting. However, this is a directional verb, so you can move one hand toward the other to specify who is meeting whom (e.g., moving your dominant hand toward your stationary non-dominant hand to mean 'I meet you').
