FromMiddle English geten Old Norse geta Proto-Germanic *getaną Old English ġietan English yet Old Saxon getan ( “ to get, to gain sth. ” ) ,Old High German pigezzan ( “ to uphold ” ) ,Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 ( bigitan “ to find, discover ” ) ), fromProto-Indo-European *gʰed- ( “ to seize ” ) .
get (third-person singular simple present gets present participle getting simple past got or ( archaic ) gat past participle got or ( US , Canada ) gotten or ( Geordie ) getten
( transitive or ditransitive ) obtain ; toacquire .I'm going toget a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
Lance is going toget Mary a ring.
( transitive ) receive .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.
( transitive , in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) have .See usage notes. I'vegot a concert ticket for you. 2012 The Secret of Graveyard Hill , Tate Publishing,→ISBN 74 :"Yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you," was Peter's response to his wife.
( transitive ) fetch ,bring ,take .Can youget my bag from the living-room, please?
I need toget this to the office.
1603 Richard Knolles ,The Generall Historie of the Turkes, [ … ] , London: [ … ] Adam Islip,→OCLC page634 :He[ …] got himself[ …]
( copulative ) become , or cause oneself to become.Synonyms: grow wax I'mgetting hungry; how about you?
I'm going out toget drunk.
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.
( transitive ) cause 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.
( transitive ) cause to do.Somehow shegot him to agree to it.
I can'tget it to work.
I can'tget it working.
I can’tget my kids to go to bed early.
c. 1601–1602 (date written)William Shakespeare , “Twelfe Night, or What You Will ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene iii] ,page268 :Get him to say his prayers.
1927 F. E. Penny , chapter 5, inPulling the Strings Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press andget them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
( transitive ) Igot him to his room.
( intransitive , with various prepositions, such asinto ,over , orbehind ; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entriesget into ,get over , etc.) adopt ,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.
( transitive ) toget a mile
( intransitive , catenative ) full 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.
( transitive ) take orcatch (a scheduled transportation service).I normallyget the 7:45 train.
I'llget the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.
( transitive ) telephone call, adoorbell , etc).Can youget that call, please? I'm busy.
( intransitive , catenative ) full 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.
( transitive , informal ) understand .( 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.
( transitive , informal ) told ; be therecipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.)."You look just like Helen Mirren." / "Iget that a lot."
2011 Get 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.
( 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] 95 :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.
( impersonal , informal ) Used with a pronoun subject, usuallyyou one Youget some very rude people here.
It was the kind of shop you used toget in most small towns.
1964 Guggenheim 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 No More Jockeys [3] 13 , 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.
( transitive ) ill with orcatch (adisease ).I went on holiday andgot malaria.
( transitive , informal ) catch out ,trick successfully.He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—itgets me every time.
( transitive , informal ) perplex ,stump .That question's reallygot me.
( transitive ) What did youget for question four?
( transitive , informal ) The cops finallygot me.
I'm gonnaget him for that.
( transitive ) hear completely;catch .Sorry, I didn'tget that. Could you repeat it?
( transitive ) getter .I put the getter into the container toget the gases.
( now rare ) beget (of a father).c. 1603–1604 William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene iii] ,page314 :I had rather to adopt a child thanget it.
1610–1611 (date written)William Shakespeare , “The Tempest ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene ii] ,page 4 :Thou poisonous slave,got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
2009 Hilary Mantel ,Wolf Hall 2010 , page310 :Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night Igot you.
( archaic ) learn ; 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
( imperative , informal ) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is beingpretentious orgrandiose . Get her with her new hairdo.
1966 Brother,get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!
2007 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.
( intransitive , informal , chiefly imperative ) go , toleave ; toscram .1991 Newspaper Days , University of Pennsylvania Press,→ISBN 663 :Get , now —get ! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.
1952 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 The Loving Kind , Pan Macmillan,→ISBN 'Go on,get . You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'
2012 Ladies at the Alamo , Graymalkin Media,→ISBN Now go on,get !Get !Get ! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer. )
2016 Dreadnought , Diversion Books,→ISBN "[ …] get , youget , understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.
( euphemistic ) kill .They’re coming toget you, Barbara.
( intransitive , obsolete ) acquisitions ; togain ; toprofit .1591 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The First Part of Henry the Sixt ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act IV, scene iii] ,page112 :We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they dailyget .
( transitive ) measure .Did youget her temperature?
( transitive ) cause someone tolaugh .Itgets me every time!
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, in American usage, dropped entirely (e.g. "I got a God-fearing woman, one I can easily afford",Slow Train Some dialects (e.g. American English dialects) use bothgotten got got . 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] Note that this does not apply to the related verbsbeget forget begotten ,forgotten . "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: Construction Most common meanings Example get + inanimate objecttoreceive , toobtain , totake They got a cute cat today have got + inanimate objecttohave , topossess She has got a nice garden have got + persontohave (as arelation ) I've got a sister / a friend / a boss get + persontounderstand or tocatch You get me? / I'll get you get + concepttounderstand He began to get the idea get + adjectivetobecome She's getting taller quickly get + person + adjectivetocause tobecome They got him full with a big dinner get + person + objecttogive or tofetch We got them two cats / Get me my shoes get + location adverbtoarrive , toreach We got far away from there get +to + locationSoon she got to her destination get +to + verbtobe able to , to bepermitted You get to eat ice cream get + person +to + verbtocause todo We get them to dance every time get + verb +-ing tobegin doing , tostart They got dancing right away get + verb +-ed/-en (+by )tobe (passive voice ) They got energized by the music
( obtain ) : acquire come by have ( receive ) : receive given ( fetch ) : bring fetch retrieve ( become ) : become ( cause to become ) : cause make ( cause to do ) : make ( arrive ) : arrive reach ( go, leave ) : get out go leave scram ( adopt or assume (a position or state) ) :go ,move ( begin ) : begin commence start ( catch (a means of public transport) ) :catch ,take ( respond to (telephone, doorbell) ) :answer ( be able to; have the opportunity to do ) : be able to ( informal: understand ) : dig follow make sense of understand ( informal: be (used to form the passive) ) :be ( informal: catch (a disease) ) :catch ,come down with ( informal: trick ) : con deceive dupe hoodwink trick ( informal: perplex ) : confuse perplex stump ( find as an answer ) : obtain ( bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal) ) :catch ,nab ,nobble ( physically assault ) : assault beat beat up ( informal: hear ) : catch hear ( getter ) : getter ( antonym(s) of “ obtain ” ) : lose a closed mouth doesn't get fed a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on beget could I get the bill could we get the bill could not get elected dogcatcher forget from the get from the get-go get about get above oneself get a charge out of get across get across to get action get a dog up you get after get ahead of oneself get along get a look in get around get around to get round to get a sad on get at get-at-able get away get away with get away with you get a word in edgeways get a word in edgewise get back get back on the horse get back to get behind get better get beyond get by get cold feet get done get down get down on get down to get eyes on get glad in the same britches one got mad in get glad in the same pants one got mad in get-go get going get got get happy get home get home bag get in get in the boat and row get into get into it get into trouble get in touch get in with get it get it across one's head get it how one lives get it in get it into one's head get it in ya get it on get it over with get it twisted get something twisted get knotted get lost get lucky get misty get moving get-nothing get nowhere fast get off get off easy get off lightly get off one's backside get off one's ass get off with get on get one over on get one's arse in gear get one's arse into gear get one's claws on get one's hands on get one's end away get one's groove on get one's head out of the gutter get one's mind out of the gutter get one's hole get one's hump up get one's kicks get one's rocks off get one's shinebox get one's shine box get one's shtick together get on in years get on to get on with get out get-out bet get out from under get out of get out of my face get out of my sight get over get rekt get-rich-quick get rid of get round get rounds get some air get someone at it get someone's goat get someone's neurons firing get something straight get stuffed gettable get thee behind me get the goods on get there get-there-ativeness get the time to get this show on the road get through getting any getting enough getting-to-know-you getting used to get to get to be get together Gettr get under get under it get under someone's goat get up get-up-and-go get up and go getup get-up get up in get up into get up off get up to get well soon get with child get with it get with the program get with the programme get woke, go broke get you gone go-getter go-getting got hard-to-get have got hippity hoppity get off my property how are you getting along how you get them is how you lose them if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys I got 2 phones misget nice work if you can get it overget placegetting reget the natives are getting restless the rich get richer those that have, get tokens get spent underget unget you don't get something for nothing to obtain
Albanian:marr (sq) Arabic:اِسْتَلَمَ ( istalama ) Armenian:please add this translation if you can Assamese:পোৱা ( püa ) Belarusian:дастава́ць impf ( dastavácʹ ) ,даста́ць pf ( dastácʹ ) Bengali:পাওয়া (bn) ( paōẇa ) Bulgarian:доби́вам (bg) ( dobívam ) Catalan:aconseguir (ca) ,obtenir (ca) Central Sierra Miwok:sun·u- ( wood ) Chechen:эца ( eca ) Cherokee:ᎠᎩᎠ ( agia ) ,( long object ) ᎠᏱᎭ ( ayiha ) ,( animate creature ) ᎠᏯᏂᎭ ( ayaniha ) Chinese:Eastern Min:掇 ( do ) Mandarin:获得 (zh) ( huòdé ) ,得到 (zh) ( dédào ) ,取 (zh) ( qǔ ) ,拿 (zh) ( ná ) Czech:dostat (cs) pf Danish:få fat i Dutch:nemen (nl) ,pakken (nl) ,halen (nl) Esperanto:preni (eo) ,havigi akiri (eo) Finnish:saada (fi) French:obtenir (fr) Georgian:მიღება ( miɣeba ) ,აღება ( aɣeba ) ,მოპოვება ( moṗoveba ) German:besorgen (de) ,holen (de) ,erwischen (de) ,kriegen (de) ( colloquial ) ,sich schnappen (de) ,anschaffen (de) Greek:Ancient:κτάομαι ( ktáomai ) ,τυγχάνω ( tunkhánō ) ( + genitive ) ,λαμβάνω ( lambánō ) ,αἱρέω ( hairéō ) Hindi:पाना (hi) ( pānā ) Hungarian:szerez (hu) Icelandic:fá (is) Ido:aquirar (io) Ingrian:saavva Interlingua:obtener Irish:faigh (ga) Old Irish:ad·cota Italian:ottenere (it) Japanese:得る (ja) ( える, eru ) ,手に入れる (ja) ( てにいれる, te ni ireru ) ,入手する (ja) ( nyuushu suru ) ,獲得する (ja) ( kakutoku suru ) Khmer:ទទួលបាន ( tɔtuəl baan ) Korean:얻다 (ko) ( eotda ) Latin:potior impetro nanciscor assequor consequor Latvian:dabūt iegūt Linngithigh:raec Lithuanian:please add this translation if you can Macedonian:зе́ма ( zéma ) Maltese:kiseb Marathi:मिळवणे ( miḷavṇe ) Meänkieli:saaha saaja sada saa'a Ngazidja Comorian:uparisa North Frisian:( Mooring ) füünj ( Föhr-Amrum ) fu Norwegian:få tak i oppnå (no) Old English:beġietan Pela:ɣa³⁵ ju⁵⁵ Persian:بدست آوردن (fa) ( bedast âvordan ) ,گرفتن (fa) ( gereftan ) Polish:dostawać (pl) impf dostać (pl) pf otrzymywać (pl) impf otrzymać (pl) pf Portuguese:conseguir (pt) ,pegar (pt) ,arrumar (pt) ,obter (pt) ( somewhat formal ) ,adquirir (pt) ( somewhat formal ) Romanian:primi (ro) ,obține (ro) Russian:достава́ть (ru) impf ( dostavátʹ ) ,доста́ть (ru) pf ( dostátʹ ) Sanskrit:लभते (sa) ( labhate ) Scottish Gaelic:faigh Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:добивати добити pf Roman:dobivati (sh) ,dobiti (sh) pf Slovak:dostať pf Slovene:dobiti pf Spanish:conseguir (es) ,obtener (es) ,coger (es) ,conciliar (es) ,granjear (es) ,recabar (es) ,asacar (es) Swahili:wahi (sw) ,pata (sw) Swedish:få (sv) ,skaffa (sv) Sylheti:ꠙꠣꠃꠣ ( faua ) Tagalog:makuha Tamil:பெறு (ta) ( peṟu ) Telugu:పొందు (te) ( pondu ) Thai:please add this translation if you can Turkish:elde etmek (tr) ,ele geçirmek (tr) Ukrainian:дістава́ти impf ( distaváty ) ,діста́ти pf ( distáty ) Vietnamese:được (vi) ,lấy Volapük:getön (vo) Welsh:cael (cy) Zazaki:xo dest finen
to receive
Arabic:اِسْتَقْبَلَ ( istaqbala ) Assamese:পোৱা ( püa ) Belarusian:атры́мліваць impf ( atrýmlivacʹ ) ,атры́мліваць impf ( atrýmlivacʹ ) ,атрыма́ць pf ( atrymácʹ ) Bengali:পাওয়া (bn) ( paōẇa ) Bulgarian:получа́вам (bg) impf ( polučávam ) ,полу́ча (bg) pf ( polúča ) Burmese:ခံ (my) ( hkam ) Catalan:rebre (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:收到 (zh) ( shōudào ) ,接到 (zh) ( jiēdào ) Czech:dostávat (cs) Danish:få (da) ,modtage (da) Dutch:krijgen (nl) ,verkrijgen (nl) Esperanto:ricevi Finnish:saada (fi) ,vastaanottaa (fi) French:recevoir (fr) Georgian:მიღება ( miɣeba ) ,აღება ( aɣeba ) German:bekommen (de) ,( colloquial ) kriegen (de) Greek:παίρνω (el) ( paírno ) Ancient:δέχομαι ( dékhomai ) Hungarian:szerez (hu) ,kap (hu) Ido:aquirar (io) Irish:faigh (ga) Old Irish:ad·cota Italian:ricevere (it) Japanese:受け取る (ja) ( うけとる, uketoru ) ,貰う (ja) ( もらう, morau ) ,得る (ja) ( える, eru ) ,受ける (ja) ( うける, ukeru ) Khmer:ទទួលបាន ( tɔtuəl baan ) Korean:받다 (ko) ( batda ) Latin:recipio (la) Latvian:saņemt iegūt dabūt Macedonian:до́бива ( dóbiva ) North Frisian:( Mooring ) füünj ( Föhr-Amrum ) fu Norwegian:få (no) ,motta Old English:underfōn Persian:گرفتن (fa) ( gereftan ) Polish:dostawać (pl) impf dostać (pl) pf Portuguese:receber (pt) ,ganhar (pt) ( especially when receiving as a prize or gift ) Romanian:primi (ro) Russian:получа́ть (ru) impf ( polučátʹ ) ,получи́ть (ru) pf ( polučítʹ ) Scottish Gaelic:faigh Serbo-Croatian:primiti (sh) Slovak:dostávať impf dostať pf Slovene:prejeti (sl) Spanish:recibir (es) Swahili:wahi (sw) ,pata (sw) Swedish:få (sv) ,ta emot (sv) ,emottaga (sv) ( archaic ) ,mottaga (sv) ,motta (sv) ,erhålla (sv) Sylheti:ꠙꠣꠃꠣ ( faua ) Tagalog:matanggap Thai:ได้รับ ( dâai ráp ) ,รับ (th) ( ráp ) Turkish:almak (tr) Ukrainian:отри́мувати (uk) impf ( otrýmuvaty ) ,оде́ржувати (uk) impf ( odéržuvaty ) Vietnamese:nhận được nhận (vi) West Frisian:krije Zazaki:gêren groten
to become
Arabic:أَصْبَحَ (ar) ( ʔaṣbaḥa ) Armenian:դառնալ (hy) ( daṙnal ) Bulgarian:ставам (bg) ( stavam ) Catalan:convertir-se en esdevenir (ca) ,convertir-se (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:成 (zh) ( chéng ) ,成為 / 成为 (zh) ( chéngwéi ) ,( change of state particle ) ...了 (zh) ( ...le ) Danish:blive (da) Dutch:worden (nl) Esperanto:iĝi fariĝi Finnish:tulla (fi) French:devenir (fr) , (get +<adjective> is often translated by a reflexive verb in French; get drunk =s'enivrer Georgian:გახდომა ( gaxdoma ) German:werden (de) ,in some cases: gehen (sometimes translated by a reflexive verb: get drunk =sichbetrinken ) Greek:Ancient Greek:καθίσταμι ( kathístami ) ( + adj. or εἰς + noun ) Hungarian:lesz (hu) Italian:divenire (it) ,diventare (it) , (get +<adjective> is often translated by a reflexive verb in Italian; get drunk =ubriacarsi Japanese:成る (ja) ( なる, naru ) ,〜になる (ja) ( ... ni naru ) ,〜となる (ja) ( ... to naru ) Khmer:ទទួល (km) ( tɔtuəl ) Korean:되다 (ko) ( doeda ) Latin:fio (la) ,ruo (la) ,( is often translated by a passive verb in Latin ) finiri ( get finished ) Latvian:kļūt (lv) ,tikt Macedonian:станува ( stanuva ) Norwegian:bli (no) Old English:weorþan Portuguese:tornar-se (pt) ,ficar (pt) , (get +<adjective> is often translated by a reflexive verb in Portuguese; get drunk =embriagar-se Russian:станови́ться (ru) impf ( stanovítʹsja ) ,стать (ru) pf ( statʹ ) ,де́латься (ru) impf ( délatʹsja ) ,сде́латься (ru) pf ( sdélatʹsja ) Scottish Gaelic:fàs Spanish:volverse (es) ,convertirse en get +(adjective) is often translated by a reflexive verb in Spanish, e.g.: get drunk =emborracharse ponerse (es) Swahili:wahi (sw) ,pata (sw) Swedish:bli (sv) Tagalog:maging Turkish:olmak (tr) Zazaki:biyen
to arrive at
Bulgarian:пристигам (bg) ( pristigam ) Catalan:arribar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:到達 / 到达 (zh) ( dàodá ) Dutch:aankomen (nl) Finnish:saapua (fi) French:atteindre (fr) ,arriver (fr) Georgian:მისვლა ( misvla ) ,მიღწევა ( miɣc̣eva ) German:ankommen (de) ,erreichen (de) ,eintreffen (de) Japanese:至る (ja) ( いたる, itaru ) ,達する (ja) ( たっする, tassuru ) ,到達する (ja) ( とうたつする, tōtatsu-suru ) Khmer:ទៅ (km) ( tɨv ) Korean:도착하다 (ko) ( dochakhada ) ,이르다 (ko) ( ireuda ) ,도달하다 (ko) ( dodalhada ) Macedonian:доаѓа ( doaǵa ) Portuguese:chegar em /a Russian:добира́ться (ru) impf ( dobirátʹsja ) ,добра́ться (ru) pf ( dobrátʹsja ) ,прибыва́ть (ru) impf ( pribyvátʹ ) ,прибы́ть (ru) pf ( pribýtʹ ) Spanish:llegar (es) Swedish:nå (sv) ,komma (sv) ,anlända (sv) Tagalog:dumating Zazaki:resayen resen
to adopt, assume (a position)
to take, catch (transportation)
to respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc)
to be able to, be permitted, have opportunity
colloquial: to understand
Bulgarian:схващам (bg) ( shvaštam ) Catalan:copsar (ca) ,clissar (ca) Danish:forstå (da) Dutch:begrijpen (nl) ,verstaan (nl) ,snappen (nl) Finnish:ymmärtää (fi) ,tajuta (fi) French:capter (fr) ,piger (fr) German:kapieren (de) ,haben (de) ( regional ) ,schnallen (de) ( slang ) Korean:알아듣다 (ko) ( aradeutda ) Macedonian:сфаќа ( sfaḱa ) Norwegian:forstå (no) ,fatte (no) Old English:understandan onġietan Portuguese:sacar (pt) ,captar (pt) ,entender (pt) Russian:понима́ть (ru) impf ( ponimátʹ ) ,поня́ть (ru) pf ( ponjátʹ ) ,вруба́ться (ru) impf ( vrubátʹsja ) ,вруби́ться (ru) pf ( vrubítʹsja ) ( colloquial ) Scottish Gaelic:tuig Spanish:captar (es) ,pillar (es) ,guipar (es) Swahili:wahi (sw) ,pata (sw) Swedish:fatta (sv) ,haja (sv) ( slang ) ,begripa (sv) Tagalog:maintindihan Turkish:anlamak (tr)
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get (plural gets
( dated ) Offspring , especiallyillegitimate .1810 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 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.’
Lineage .( sports , tennis ) return or block of a shot.( informal ) acquisition .2008 Falling Out of Fashion , page73 :I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a bigget for the magazine.
Variant ofgit
get (plural gets
( 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?
Althoughget is the original word, the variantgit FromHebrew גֵּט ( gēṭ ) .
get (plural gets or gittim or gitten
( Judaism ) Jewish writ ofdivorce .2013 Love, Sex and Marriage , page143 :In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grantgets
get
second-person singular imperative ofgetmək FromEnglish get
get
( Hong Kong Cantonese , often with到 dào ) understand 佢 講 嘅嘢 太 複雜 ，我 get 唔 到 佢 咩 意思 。[Cantonese ,trad. 佢 讲 嘅嘢 太 复杂 ，我 get 唔 到 佢 咩 意思 。[Cantonese ,simp. keoi5 gong2 ge3 je5 taai3 fuk1 zaap6 , ngo5 get1 m4 dou3 keoi5 me1 ji3 si1 . [Jyutping] The stuff he's talking about is too complicated, I don'tget what he means. get
inflection ofgeta first-person singular present indicative singular imperative FromHebrew גט
get m
divorce FromMiddle Dutch iewet iet /ie̯/ developed into/je/ word-initially, as it did inHigh German , and the onset was then enclitically hardened to ⟨g⟩ (/ʝ/ ). Cognate withDutch iets Central Franconian jet Luxembourgish jett gett English aught
get
some ,somewhat very Ich woar merget blij. ―I wasvery happy. get
something ,anything ( indefinite pronoun ) Placed before a plural noun, indicating general cases of people or things :some Doe hasget höng. ―You ownsome dogs. get
Medial form ofgete Old French jayet jaiet gaiet Latin gagātēs Ancient Greek Γαγάτης ( Gagátēs ) .
get uncountable
jet ,hardened coal A bead made ofjet . A jet-black pigment.
get
plural ofgot ( “ goat ” ) ġet n ( Vespasian PsalterMercian )
alternative form ofġeat Stronga -stem:
ġēt
alternative form ofġīet Fromgeta
get n
( rare ) guess get
first-person singular present indicative ofgeta second-person singular imperative ofgeta Zoëga, Geir T. (1910 ), “get ”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic , Oxford: Clarendon Press Internet Archive FromOld Norse geit Proto-Germanic *gaits
gēt f
goat FromFrench Gètes Latin Getae Ancient Greek Γέται ( Gétai ) .
get m plural geți feminine equivalent getă
Get , one of theGetae , Greek name for theDacian peopleSynonym: dac enget sombetar FromOld Swedish gēt Old Norse geit Proto-Germanic *gaits Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- ( “ goat ” ) .
get c
goat FromMiddle English geten Old Norse geta Proto-Germanic *getaną
get (third-person singular geeth simple past godth
toget 1867 SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY , page111 :Caulès will naget to wullaw to-die. Horses will notget to wallow to-day. 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 
