Meaning

9 senses
  1. (literally)To enter by running.

    He ran into the building.

    вбега́тьvbegátʹ, вбежа́тьvbežátʹ

  2. To collide with.

    He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree.

    I've sustained some front-end damage after running into a pothole.

    нае́хатьnajéxatʹ, наезжа́тьnajezžátʹ

    collide violently with an obstacle

  3. To cause to collide with.

    He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.

  4. (broadly)To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively).

    I ran into your cousin the other day.

    Everything was going according to plan until we ran into the legal problems.

    auf jemanden/etwas stoßen, jemandem über den Weg laufen

  5. (dated)To reach, to flow into (a body of water).

  6. To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.

  7. To cause to blend into.

    You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.

  8. To reach a large figure.

    By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.

  9. (transitive)To amount to.

    debts running into millions

Examples

683 sentences
  1. I ran into Tom in the park.

    Я випадково зустрів Тома в парку.

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  2. I ran into Tom on the bus.

    Я випадково зустрів Тома в автобусі.

    ruВ автобусе я столкнулся с Томом.

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  3. I ran into a friend of mine on the bus.

    Я випадково зустрівся зі своїм другом в автобусі.

    ruЯ столкнулся со своим другом в автобусе.

    deIch traf im Bus einen Freund.

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  4. The car ran into a tree.

    Машина врізалася у дерево.

    ruМашина врезалась в дерево.

    deDas Auto fuhr gegen einen Baum.

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  5. He ran into debt.

    Він вліз у борги.

    ruОн влез в долги.

    deEr machte Schulden.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to enter by running:
to collide with:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to encounter or meet:

Forms

runs into, running into, ran into, run into
Base formrun into · to run into
3rd person singularruns into
Present participlerunning into
Past simpleran into
Past participlerun into

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrun into
he, she, itruns into

Past simpleLesson

all personsran into

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave run into
he, she, ithas run into

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill run into

Phrasal verbs

16 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
run into — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto