Learn Hardcore Vietnamese: Mấy giờ gặp?

Breakdown of Mấy giờ gặp?

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What does mấy giờ mean in this sentence?

Mấy giờ means what time.

In Mấy giờ gặp?, it is asking for the time of the meeting or the time when people will meet.

A useful distinction:

So here, mấy giờ is not asking for the current time in general. It is asking at what time to meet.

Why is there no subject, like we or you?

Vietnamese often leaves out subjects when they are already clear from context.

So Mấy giờ gặp? literally looks like What time meet?, but naturally it means something like:

This omission is very common in everyday Vietnamese. If the speaker and listener both know who is involved, there is no need to say it explicitly.

What does gặp mean here?