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-os is the future tense ending in Esperanto. It means the action will happen in the future.
So:
- renkontiĝas = meet / are meeting
- renkontiĝis = met
- renkontiĝos = will meet
In this sentence, Ni renkontiĝos means we will meet.
This is a very common question.
- renkontos = will meet someone
- renkontiĝos = will meet with each other / will come together
In practice:
- Mi renkontos ŝin. = I will meet her.
- Ni renkontiĝos. = We will meet (each other).
So renkontiĝi often has a mutual sense: the people involved are meeting one another, not just one person meeting another person as an object.
The suffix -iĝ- often gives the idea of becoming, getting into a state, or sometimes an intransitive / non-object-taking version of a verb.
With renkontiĝi, it creates the idea of or , rather than meeting a direct object.