get
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Etymology: From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to find; to acquire, attain, get, hold, receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to find; to hold; to seize; to take”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola get (“to get”), Danish gide (“to care, like”), Faroese gita (“to be able”), Icelandic geta (“to be able; to beget, father; to achieve, obtain, to guess; to mention”), Norwegian Nynorsk gjeta, gjete (“to guess; to mention”), Scanian gida (“to have the energy to, to feel up for”), gæda (“to guess”), Swedish gita, gitta (“to be able, to bring oneself to, to care”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to discover, find”); also Latin edera, hedera (“ivy”), praeda (“booty, pillage, plunder; prey; gain, profit”), prehendō, prēndō (“to grab, grasp, seize; to attain, reach”), Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “to comprise, contain, hold”), Albanian gjej (“to find”).
Inflected forms:
form: gets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: getting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: got
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gat
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
archaic
past
form: got
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gotten
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
US
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
recently
form: getten
pos: verb
tags: Geordie
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: get
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: get
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: got
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: gat
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: get
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: gettest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: got
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: gottest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: gattest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: gets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: getteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: got
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: get
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: got
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: get
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: got
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: get
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: getting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: got
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gotten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: getten
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: git
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: git
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To obtain; to acquire.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
transitive
examples: I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
Lance is going to get Mary a ring.
gloss: To receive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
He got a severe reprimand for that.
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 he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
gloss: To have. See usage notes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've got a concert ticket for you.
"Yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you," was Peter's response to his wife.
gloss: To fetch, bring, take.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
I need to get this to the office.
Get thee out from this land.
He[…]got himself[…]to the strong town of Mega.
gloss: To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
pos: verb
tags: copulative
examples: Near-synonyms: become, turn, go, come, fall, grow, wax
I'm getting hungry; how about you?
I'm going out to get drunk.
November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
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 he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
gloss: To cause to become; to bring about.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.
I'll get this finished by lunchtime.
I can't get these boots off.
I can’t get my hands warm.
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 money getting '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.
gloss: To cause to do.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Somehow she got him to agree to it.
I can't get it to work.
I can't get it working.
I can’t get my kids to go to bed early.
Get him to say his prayers.
Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
gloss: To cause to come or go or move.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I got him to his room.
Get thee behind me.
gloss: To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: The actors are getting into position.
When are we going to get to London?
I'm getting into a muddle.
We got behind the wall.
gloss: To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to get a mile
gloss: (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
pos: verb
tags: catenative
intransitive
examples: We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
After lunch we got chatting.
I'm getting to like him better now.
gloss: To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I normally get the 7:45 train.
I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.
gloss: To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.
gloss: (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
pos: verb
tags: catenative
intransitive
examples: I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!
The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.
Great. I get to clean the toilets today.
gloss: To understand. (compare get it)
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.
I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.
gloss: To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: "You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."
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 probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl.
gloss: Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
pos: verb
tags: auxiliary
informal
examples: He got bitten by a dog.
Of particular importance is the bureaucratic organization of European judiciaries. The judiciary is a career. You start at the bottom and get assigned and promoted at the pleasure of your superiors.
gloss: Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
informal
examples: You get some very rude people here.
It was the kind of shop you used to get in most small towns.
He thinks that proper to northern man is the cellular composition, you know, the kind of thing one gets in Celtic ornamentation, for example, which a subject that interests him greatly.
You get non-binary people – you get people who don't identify as a man or a woman.
It was a terrible place to live. You get places like that. It is just the way it is.
gloss: To become ill with or catch (a disease).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I went on holiday and got malaria.
gloss: To catch out, trick successfully.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.
gloss: To perplex, stump.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: That question's really got me.
gloss: To find as an answer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What did you get for question four?
gloss: To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The cops finally got me.
I'm gonna get him for that.
gloss: To hear completely; catch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?
gloss: To getter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I put the getter into the container to get the gases.
gloss: To beget (of a father).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
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 I got you.
gloss: To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: to get a lesson;  to get out one's Greek lesson
it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
gloss: Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
pos: verb
tags: imperative
informal
examples: Get her with her new hairdo.
Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!
Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
gloss: To go, to leave; to scram.
pos: verb
tags: imperative
informal
intransitive
examples: Get, now — get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.
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 I got. I went back about twenty feet or so and watched.
'Go on, get. You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'
Now go on, get! Get! Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)
"[…] 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 to get, you get, understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
examples: They’re coming to get you, Barbara.
He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger
And he slashed up Dasher just like Freddy Krueger
gloss: To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
gloss: To measure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Did you get her temperature?
gloss: To cause someone to laugh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It gets me every time!
gloss: Offspring, especially illegitimate.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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 his get won the Oaks in 1808.
You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers].
‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
gloss: Lineage.
pos: noun
gloss: A difficult return or block of a shot.
pos: noun
gloss: Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.
gloss: A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Related words: guess
Derived words: 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
the get
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 a horse
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 big or get out
get by
get cold feet
get done
get down
get down on
get down to
get even or get even worse
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 price
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
get it over with
get it twisted
get something twisted
get knotted
get lost
get lucky
get Mario Karted
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 eyes off
get one's groove on
get one's head out of the gutter
get one's mind out of the gutter
get one's head right
get one's hole
get one's hump up
get one's kicks
get one's priorities right
get one's priorities straight
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 it
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-ready
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 the band back together
get thee behind me
get the goods on
get there
get-there-ativeness
get the runaround
get the time to
get the wrong idea
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
misget
nice work if you can get it
one must give to get
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
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: marr
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتَلَمَ
roman: istalama
lang: Assamese
word: পোৱা
roman: püa
lang: Belarusian
word: дастава́ць
roman: dastavácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: даста́ць
roman: dastácʹ
lang: Bengali
word: পাওয়া
roman: paōẇa
lang: Bulgarian
word: доби́вам
roman: dobívam
lang: Catalan
word: aconseguir
lang: Catalan
word: obtenir
lang: Chechen
word: эца
roman: eca
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᎩᎠ
roman: agia
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏱᎭ
roman: ayiha
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏯᏂᎭ
roman: ayaniha
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 掇
roman: do
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 获得
roman: huòdé
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 得到
roman: dédào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 取
roman: qǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 拿
roman: ná
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: uparisa
lang: Czech
word: dostat
lang: Danish
word: få fat i
lang: Dutch
word: nemen
lang: Dutch
word: pakken
lang: Dutch
word: halen
lang: Esperanto
word: preni
lang: Esperanto
word: havigi
lang: Esperanto
word: akiri
lang: Finnish
word: saada
lang: French
word: obtenir
lang: North Frisian
word: füünj
lang: North Frisian
word: fu
lang: Georgian
word: მიღება
roman: miɣeba
lang: Georgian
word: აღება
roman: aɣeba
lang: Georgian
word: მოპოვება
roman: moṗoveba
lang: German
word: besorgen
lang: German
word: holen
lang: German
word: erwischen
lang: German
word: kriegen
lang: German
word: sich schnappen
lang: German
word: anschaffen
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κτάομαι
roman: ktáomai
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τυγχάνω
roman: tunkhánō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λαμβάνω
roman: lambánō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: αἱρέω
roman: hairéō
lang: Hindi
word: पाना
roman: pānā
lang: Hungarian
word: szerez
lang: Icelandic
word: fá
lang: Ido
word: aquirar
lang: Ingrian
word: saavva
lang: Interlingua
word: obtener
lang: Irish
word: faigh
lang: Old Irish
word: ad·cota
lang: Italian
word: ottenere
lang: Italian
word: prendere
lang: Japanese
word: 得る
roman: eru
lang: Japanese
word: 手に入れる
roman: te ni ireru
lang: Japanese
word: 入手する
roman: nyuushu suru
lang: Japanese
word: 獲得する
roman: kakutoku suru
lang: Khmer
word: ទទួលបាន
roman: tɔtuəl baan
lang: Korean
word: 얻다
roman: eotda
lang: Latin
word: potior
lang: Latin
word: impetro
lang: Latin
word: nanciscor
lang: Latin
word: assequor
lang: Latin
word: consequor
lang: Latvian
word: dabūt
lang: Latvian
word: iegūt
lang: Linngithigh
word: raec
lang: Macedonian
word: зе́ма
roman: zéma
lang: Maltese
word: kiseb
lang: Marathi
word: मिळवणे
roman: miḷavṇe
lang: Meänkieli
word: saaha
lang: Meänkieli
word: saaja
lang: Meänkieli
word: sada
lang: Meänkieli
word: saa'a
lang: Central Sierra Miwok
word: sun·u-
roman: wood
lang: Norwegian
word: få tak i
lang: Norwegian
word: oppnå
lang: Old English
word: beġietan
lang: Pela
word: ɣa³⁵
lang: Pela
word: ju⁵⁵
lang: Persian
word: بدست آوردن
roman: bedast âvordan
lang: Persian
word: گرفتن
roman: gereftan
lang: Polish
word: dostawać
lang: Polish
word: dostać
lang: Polish
word: otrzymywać
lang: Polish
word: otrzymać
lang: Portuguese
word: conseguir
lang: Portuguese
word: pegar
lang: Portuguese
word: arrumar
lang: Portuguese
word: obter
lang: Portuguese
word: adquirir
lang: Romanian
word: primi
lang: Romanian
word: obține
lang: Russian
word: достава́ть
roman: dostavátʹ
lang: Russian
word: доста́ть
roman: dostátʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: लभते
roman: labhate
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: faigh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: добивати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: добити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dobivati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dobiti
lang: Slovak
word: dostať
lang: Slovene
word: dobiti
lang: Spanish
word: conseguir
lang: Spanish
word: obtener
lang: Spanish
word: coger
lang: Spanish
word: conciliar
lang: Spanish
word: granjear
lang: Spanish
word: recabar
lang: Spanish
word: asacar
lang: Swahili
word: wahi
lang: Swahili
word: pata
lang: Swedish
word: få
lang: Swedish
word: skaffa
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠙꠣꠃꠣ
roman: faua
lang: Tagalog
word: makuha
lang: Tamil
word: பெறு
roman: peṟu
lang: Tamil
word: கிடை
roman: kiṭai
lang: Telugu
word: పొందు
roman: pondu
lang: Turkish
word: elde etmek
lang: Turkish
word: ele geçirmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: дістава́ти
roman: distaváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: діста́ти
roman: distáty
lang: Vietnamese
word: được
lang: Vietnamese
word: lấy
lang: Volapük
word: getön
lang: Welsh
word: cael
lang: Zazaki
word: xo dest finen
lang: Catalan
word: ser
lang: Dutch
word: worden
lang: French
word: être
lang: German
word: werden
lang: Italian
word: essere
lang: Latin
word: sum
lang: Norwegian
word: bli
lang: Old English
word: weorþan
lang: Portuguese
word: ser
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bi
lang: Spanish
word: ser
lang: Swahili
word: wahi
lang: Swahili
word: pata
lang: Swedish
word: bli
lang: Finnish
word: saada
lang: German
word: bekommen
lang: German
word: kriegen
lang: Portuguese
word: pegar
lang: Swedish
word: bli