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See also:-get,Get,ge- -t,get.,andgët

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishgeten, fromOld Norsegeta, fromProto-Germanic*getaną. Cognate withOld Englishġietan (whence alsoEnglishyet),Old Saxongetan(“to get, to gain sth.”),Old High Germanpigezzan(“to uphold”),Gothic𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽(bigitan,“to find, discover”)), fromProto-Indo-European*gʰed-(“to seize”).

Verb

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get (third-person singular simple presentgets,present participlegetting,simple pastgotor(archaic)gat,past participlegotor(United States,Canada)gottenor(Geordie)getten)

  1. (transitive or ditransitive) Toobtain; toacquire.
    I'm going toget a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
    Lance is going toget Mary a ring.
  2. (transitive) Toreceive.
    Igot a computer from my parents for my birthday.
    Hegot a severe reprimand for that.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC,page175:
      Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing hegot when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
  3. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) Tohave.See usage notes.
    I'vegot a concert ticket for you.
  4. (transitive) Tofetch,bring,take.
    Can youget my bag from the living-room, please?
    I need toget this to the office.
  5. (copulative) Tobecome, or cause oneself to become.
    I'mgetting hungry; how about you?
    I'm going out toget drunk.
    You'regetting to be a lovely kid.
    • November 1, 1833,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Table Talk
      His chariot wheelsget hot by driving fast.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC,page175:
      Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had beengetting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
  6. (transitive) Tocause to become; to bring about.
    That songgets me so depressed every time I hear it.
    I'llget this finished by lunchtime.
    I can'tget these boots off.
    I can’tget my hands warm.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC,page 6:
      Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble moneygetting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
  7. (transitive) Tocause to do.
    Somehow shegot him to agree to it.
    I can'tget it to work.
    Don’tget me talking about his illnesses.
    I can’tget my kids to go to bed early.
  8. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
    Igot him to his room.
  9. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such asinto,over, orbehind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entriesget into,get over, etc.) Toadopt,assume,arrive at, orprogress towards (a certain position, location, state).
    The actors aregetting into position.
    When are we going toget to London?
    I'mgetting into a muddle.
    Wegot behind the wall.
  10. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
    toget a mile
  11. (intransitive, catenative) (withfull infinitive orgerund-participle) Tobegin (doing something or to do something).
    We ought toget moving or we'll be late.
    After lunch wegot chatting.
    I'mgetting to like him better now.
  12. (transitive) Totake orcatch (a scheduled transportation service).
    I normallyget the 7:45 train.
    I'llget the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.
  13. (transitive) To respond to (atelephone call, adoorbell, etc).
    Can youget that call, please? I'm busy.
  14. (intransitive, catenative) (withfull infinitive) To beable, bepermitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
    I'm so jealous that yougot to see them perform live!
    The findersget to keep 80 percent of the treasure.
    Great. Iget to clean the toilets today.
  16. (transitive, informal) Tounderstand.(compareget it)
    Yeah, Iget it, it's just not funny.
    I don'tget what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
    I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. Shegets me.
  17. (transitive, informal) To betold; be therecipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
    "You look just like Helen Mirren." / "Iget that a lot."
    • 2011, “You ProbablyGet That A Lot (Elegant Too Remix)”, inThey Might Be Giants (music),Album Raises New and Troubling Questions:
      Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probablyget that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl.
  18. (auxiliary, informal)Used with thepast participle to form the dynamicpassive voice of adynamic verb. Compared with static passive withtobe, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
    Synonym:tobe
    Hegot bitten by a dog.
    • 2003,Richard A. Posner,Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy‎[1], page95:
      Of particular importance is the bureaucratic organization of European judiciaries. The judiciary is a career. You start at the bottom andget assigned and promoted at the pleasure of your superiors.
  19. (impersonal, informal)Used with a pronoun subject, usuallyyou but sometimesone, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
    Youget some very rude people here.
    It was the kind of shop you used toget in most small towns.
    • 1964, Lawrence Alloway, “Cobra Group with Lawrence Alloway, 1964”, inGuggenheim Museum Archives Reel-to-Reel collection‎[2]:
      He thinks that proper to northern man is the cellular composition, you know, the kind of thing onegets in Celtic ornamentation, for example, which a subject that interests him greatly.
    • 2021, 25:30 from the start, inNo More Jockeys‎[3], season 4, episode13, spoken byMark Watson:
      Youget non-binary people – youget people who don't identify as a man or a woman.
    • 2023 October 27, Laine Priestley, Mary Williams, “Boarding house destroyed by fire”, inStar News‎[4]:
      It was a terrible place to live. Youget places like that. It is just the way it is.
  20. (transitive) To becomeill with orcatch (adisease).
    I went on holiday andgot malaria.
  21. (transitive, informal) Tocatch out,trick successfully.
    He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—itgets me every time.
  22. (transitive, informal) Toperplex,stump.
    That question's reallygot me.
  23. (transitive) To find as an answer.
    What did youget for question four?
  24. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
    The cops finallygot me.
    I'm gonnaget him for that.
  25. (transitive) Tohear completely;catch.
    Sorry, I didn'tget that. Could you repeat it?
  26. (transitive) Togetter.
    I put the getter into the container toget the gases.
  27. (now rare) Tobeget (of a father).
  28. (archaic) Tolearn; to commit tomemory; tomemorize; sometimes without.
    toget a lesson;  toget out one's Greek lesson
    • 1662,John Fell,The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond,page96:
      it being harder with him toget one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
  29. (imperative, informal)Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is beingpretentious orgrandiose.
    Get her with her new hairdo.
    • 1966, Dorothy Fields, “If My Friends Could See Me Now”:
      Brother,get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!
    • 2007, Tom Dyckhoff,Let's move to ...,The Guardian:
      Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh,get her) is promised.
  30. (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) Togo, toleave; toscram.
    • 1991, Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich,Newspaper Days, University of Pennsylvania Press,→ISBN, page663:
      Get, now —get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.
    • 1952, Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds,Me and Flapjack and the Martians:
      I had a sneaking suspicion that it wasn't no flashlight and I wasn't too curious, just then, to find out what would happen if he did more than wave it at me, so Igot. I went back about twenty feet or so and watched.
    • 2010, Sarah Webb,The Loving Kind, Pan Macmillan,→ISBN:
      'Go on,get. You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'
    • 2012, Paul Zindel,Ladies at the Alamo, Graymalkin Media,→ISBN:
      Now go on,get!Get!Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)
    • 2016, April Daniels,Dreadnought, Diversion Books,→ISBN:
      "[…] and then I'll switch over to the police band to know when the bacon's getting ready to stick its nose in. When I tell you toget, youget, understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.
  31. (euphemistic) Tokill.
    They’re coming toget you, Barbara.
  32. (intransitive, obsolete) To makeacquisitions; togain; toprofit.
  33. (transitive) Tomeasure.
    Did youget her temperature?
  34. (transitive) Tocause someone tolaugh.
    Itgets me every time!
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  • The meaning "to have" is found only in perfect tenses but has present meaning; hence "I have got" has the same meaning as "I have". (Sometimes the formhad got is used to mean "had", as in "Luckily, I was able to start a fire because I had got a lighter in my pocket".) In speech and in all except formal writing, the word "have" is normally reduced to /v/ and spelled "-'ve" or dropped entirely (e.g. "I got a God-fearing woman, one I can easily afford",Slow Train, Bob Dylan), leading to nonstandard usages such as "he gots" = "he has", "he doesn't got" = "he doesn't have".
  • Some dialects (e.g. American English dialects) use bothgotten andgot as past participles, while others (e.g. dialects of Southern England) use onlygot. In dialects that use both,got is used for the meanings "to have" and "to have to", whilegotten is used for all other meanings.[1] This allows for a distinction between "I've gotten a ticket" (I have received or obtained a ticket) vs. "I've got a ticket" (I currently have a ticket).
  • "get" is one of the most common verbs in English, and the many meanings may be confusing for language learners. The following table indicates some of the different constructions found, along with the most common meanings of each:
ConstructionMost common meaningsExample
get + inanimate objecttoreceive, toobtain, totakeThey got a cute cat today
have got + inanimate objecttohaveShe has got a nice garden
get + persontounderstandor tocatchYou get me? / I got you
get + concepttounderstandHe began to get the idea
get + adjectivetobecomeShe's getting taller quickly
get + person + adjectivetocause tobecomeThey got him full with a big dinner
get + person + objecttogiveWe got them two cats
get + location adverbtoarriveWe got far away from there
get +to + locationSoon she got to her destination
get +to + verbtobe able toYou get to eat ice cream
get + person +to + verbtocause todoWe get them to dance every time
get + verb +-ingtobegindoingThey got dancing right away
get + verb +-ed/-entobe (passive voice)They got energized by the music
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofget
infinitive(to)get
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingulargetgot,gat2
2nd-personsingularget,gettest2got,gottest2,gattest2
3rd-personsingulargets,getteth2got
pluralgetgot
subjunctivegetgot
imperativeget—
participlesgettinggot,gotten1,getten1
Synonyms
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Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of“obtain”):lose
Derived terms
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Related terms
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Translations
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to obtain
to receive
to become
to cause to become
to fetch
to don
to doff
to cause to do
to betake
to arrive at
to adopt, assume (a position)
to begin
to take, catch (transportation)
to respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc)
to be able to, be permitted, have opportunity
colloquial: to understand
colloquial: to be
to become ill with
to catch out
to perplex
to find as an answer
to bring to reckoning
to physically assault
to hear completely
to getter—seegetter
to beget—seebeget
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Noun

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get (pluralgets)

  1. (dated)Offspring, especiallyillegitimate.
    • 1810, Thomas Hornby Morland,The genealogy of the English race horse, page71:
      At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of hisget won the Oaks in 1808.
    • 1976, Frank Herbert,Children of Dune:
      You must admit that the bastardget of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers].
    • 1999,George R.R. Martin,A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published2011, page755:
      ‘You were a high lord'sget. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
  2. Lineage.
  3. (sports, tennis) A difficultreturn or block of a shot.
  4. (informal) Something gained; anacquisition.
    • 2008, Karen Yampolsky,Falling Out of Fashion, page73:
      I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a bigget for the magazine.

Etymology 2

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Variant ofgit.

Noun

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get (pluralgets)

  1. (UK, Ireland, regional)Synonym ofgit(“contemptible person”)
    • 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, inNew Musical Express:
      Kylie: Oi, Bono! You lazyget! Have you finished my song yet?
Usage notes
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  • Althoughget is the original word, the variantgit is more common.

Etymology 3

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FromHebrewגֵּט(gēṭ).

Noun

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get (pluralgetsorgittimorgitten)

  1. (Judaism) AJewishwrit ofdivorce.
    • 2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, George D. Chryssides, Dawoud El-Alami,Love, Sex and Marriage, page143:
      In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grantgets to their wives.
Quotations
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References

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  1. ^http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html andhttp://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

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Verb

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get

  1. second-personsingularimperative ofgetmək

Chinese

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Etymology

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FromEnglishget.

Pronunciation

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get

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) tounderstand, often used with "到"
    佢講嘅嘢太複雜，我get唔到佢咩意思。
    The stuff that he is talking about is too complicated, I don'tget what he means.

Icelandic

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Verb

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get

  1. inflection ofgeta:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. singularimperative

Ladino

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Etymology

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FromHebrewגט.

Noun

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get m

  1. divorce

Limburgish

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Dutchiewet,iet. The diphthong/ie̯/ developed into/je/ word-initially, as it did inHigh German, and the onset was then enclitically hardened to ⟨g⟩ (/ʝ/). Cognate withDutchiets,Central Franconianjet, northernLuxembourgishjett,gett,Englishaught.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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get

  1. some,somewhat
  2. very
    Ich woar merget blij. ―I wasvery happy.

Pronoun

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get

  1. something,anything
  2. (indefinite pronoun)Placed before a plural noun, indicating general cases of people or things:some
    Doe hasget höng. ―You ownsome dogs.

Mauritian Creole

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Verb

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get

  1. Medial form ofgete

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From a northern form ofOld Frenchjayet,jaiet,gaiet, fromLatingagātēs, fromAncient GreekΓαγάτης(Gagátēs).

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛːt/,/d͡ʒɛt/

Noun

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get (uncountable)

  1. jet,hardenedcoal
  2. A bead made ofjet.
  3. A jet-black pigment.
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Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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get

  1. plural ofgot(“goat”)

Old English

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Adverb

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ġēt

  1. Alternative form ofġīet

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Fromgeta.

Noun

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get n

  1. (rare) aguess

Declension

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Declension ofget (stronga-stem)
neutersingularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativegetgetitgetgetin
accusativegetgetitgetgetin
dativegetigetinugetumgetunum
genitivegetsgetsinsgetagetanna

Verb

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get

  1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofgeta
  2. second-personsingularimperative ofgeta

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “get”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

Old Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsegeit, fromProto-Germanic*gaits.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gēt f

  1. goat

Declension

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Declension ofgēt (consonant stem)
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativegētgētingētergētrina(r),-rena(r)
accusativegētgētina,-enagētergētrina(r),-rena(r)
dativegētgētinni,-innegētum,-omgētumin,-omen
genitivegēta(r)inna(r)gētagētanna

Descendants

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Romanian

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Etymology

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FromFrenchGètes,LatinGetae, fromAncient GreekΓέται(Gétai).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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get m (pluralgeți,feminine equivalentgetă)

  1. Get, one of theGetae, Greek name for theDacian people
    Synonym:dac

Declension

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Declension ofget
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativegetgetulgetigetii
genitive-dativegetgetuluigetigetilor
vocativegetulegetilor

Swedish

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SwedishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediasv
en get

Etymology

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FromOld Swedishgēt, fromOld Norsegeit, fromProto-Germanic*gaits, fromProto-Indo-European*gʰayd-(“goat”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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get c

  1. goat

Declension

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Declension ofget
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitegetgets
definitegetengetens
pluralindefinitegettergetters
definitegetternagetternas

Derived terms

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References

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Anagrams

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Yola

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishgeten, fromOld Norsegeta, fromProto-Germanic*getaną.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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get (third-person singulargeeth,simple pastgodth)

  1. toget
    • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page111:
      Caulès will naget to wullaw to-die.
      Horses will notget to wallow to-day.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page111
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