Мы успеем встретиться вечером.

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Breakdown of Мы успеем встретиться вечером.

• встретиться: to meet
• вечером: in the evening
• успеть: to manage

Questions & Answers about Мы успеем встретиться вечером.

What does успеем mean here? Is it just “we will meet”?

Успеем is the 1st person plural future of успеть (perfective), which literally means “to manage (in time), to have enough time, to be on time.”

So Мы успеем встретиться вечером is more like:

• “We’ll have time to meet in the evening”
  or
• “We’ll manage to meet in the evening (we won’t be too late / too busy).”

It does not simply mean “we will meet”; it adds the nuance that time will be sufficient.

Why do we have two verbs, успеем and встретиться, in a row?

This is a very common Russian structure: успеть + infinitive.

• Успеем – conjugated verb (“we will manage / have time”)
• Встретиться – infinitive (“to meet”)

Together: успеть что‑сделать? → успеть встретиться = “to manage to meet / to have time to meet.”

The second verb must be in the infinitive, not conjugated.
So Мы успеем встретимся вечером is wrong; it must be Мы успеем встретиться вечером.

What aspect are успеем and встретиться, and why are they both perfective?