No. 46 in Dutch
komen
"To come"
In a sentence
Ik kom morgen naar het feest.
I will come to the party tomorrow.
In this sentence, 'komen' is used in the first-person present tense to indicate movement or arrival to a specific location or event in the future.
We kwamen vroeg bij het station aan.
We arrived early at the station.
Here, 'komen' is conjugated in the past tense ('kwamen') to describe an action of arriving that has already occurred.
Kun je even hier komen?
Can you come over here for a moment?
In this example, 'komen' is used in an imperative form within a question to invite the listener to perform the action of approaching or moving closer.
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