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- "Они встретили меня в парке."
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It should be noted that the word встречать/ встретить means "to meet up (having already known each other)". If you want to say "i met someone" meaning the first time you met them, having never known them before, use the word познакомить(ся)
That would be "We all met up in the park" as opposed to everyone meeting the speaker at the park.
Дуо очень не любит художественный перевод. Тут сплошной канцелярит, страшный сон Норы Галь.
Sounds like a drugseller met with some drugdealers in a park, and the seller was captured by polices and he/she is confessing all.
This is the perfective past tense. You can tell because the typical past tense ending of a verb is -л / -ла / -ло (m / f / n respectively) (usually you just chop the infinitive ending, such as the -ть, and then just toss the past tense ending on).
"They meet me at the park" would be Они встречают меня в парке. It is the imperfective present tense of the verb "To meet".
@Gara356818:
Встретить = When a person (group, w/e) meets another person (group, etc.).
In that case, it is: (Nominative subject - who is doing the meeting) встретить (conjugated for subject) (accusative object - who is being met)
Like in this sentence - Они встретили меня - They met me.
Встретиться has that reflexive -ся (-сь) ending, which indicates that the action was reflected/done back onto/shared jointly with the person/group doing it. In that case, it's just... (Nominative subject) встретиться (conjugated for the subject).
For example - Мы встретились в парке - We met in the park.
Hopefully this makes sense, I'm happy to clarify/give further examples if necessary!
