come up to

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

come up to - speak to someone                     accost, address greet, recognise, recognize - express greetings upon meeting someone approach - make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion; "I was approached by the President to serve as his adviser in foreign matters" come, come up - move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room"

Translations

? come up to

vi +prep obj

(= reach up to) → gehen or reichen bis zu or an (+acc); the water came up to his knees → das Wasser ging or reichte ihm bis an die Knie or bis zu den Knien

(= equal) hopes → erfüllen; expectations → entsprechen (+dat)

(inf: = approach) she’s coming up to twenty → sie wird bald zwanzig; we’re coming up to 150 km/h → wir haben gleich 150 km/h drauf (inf); it’s just coming up to 10 o’clock → es ist gleich 10 Uhr