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English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɡɛt/
Audio (General American): (file)
IPA^(key): (regionally restricted) /ɡɪt/
Audio (US, regional): (file)
(Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɡet/
Rhymes: -ɛt, -ɪt

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰe(n)d-der.

Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-eti

Proto-Germanic *getaną

Old Norse getabor.

Middle English geten

English get

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”).

Alternative forms

git (African-American Vernacular, Appalachia, Southern US)

Verb

get (third-person singular simple present gets, present participle getting, simple past got or (Scotland, Northern England, archaic) gat, past participle got or (US, Canada, more recently UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) gotten or (Geordie) getten)

(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
Synonyms: acquire, come by, have; see also Thesaurus:achieve, Thesaurus:acquire

Antonym: lose

I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.

Lance is going to get Mary a ring.
(transitive) To receive.
Synonyms: receive, be given; see also Thesaurus:receive

I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.

He got a severe reprimand for that.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 175:
  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.
(transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
I've got a concert ticket for you.
- 2012, James Hibbitts, Joe Roberts, The Secret of Graveyard Hill, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 74:
  "Yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you," was Peter's response to his wife.
(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
Synonyms: bring, fetch, retrieve

Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?

I need to get this to the office.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:13:
  Get thee out from this land.
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 634:
  He […] got himself […] to the strong town of Mega.
(copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
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.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 175:
  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.
(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
Synonyms: cause to be, cause to become, make

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.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. 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 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.
(transitive) To cause to do.
Synonym: make

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.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 268:
  Get him to say his prayers.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
  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.”
(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
I got him to his room.
- 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Retro me, Sathana !”, in Ballads and Sonnets, →OCLC, page 252:
  Get thee behind me.
(intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
Synonyms: arrive at, reach

Synonyms: go, move

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.
(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
to get a mile
(intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
Synonyms: begin, commence, start; see also Thesaurus:begin

We ought to get moving or we'll be late.

After lunch we got chatting.

I'm getting to like him better now.
(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
Synonyms: catch, take

I normally get the 7:45 train.

I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.
(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
Synonym: answer

Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.
(intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
Synonym: be able to

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.
(transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
Synonyms: dig, follow, make sense of, understand

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.
(transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."
- 2011, “You Probably Get That A Lot (Elegant Too Remix)”, in They 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 probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl.
(auxiliary, informal) 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.
Synonym: to be
He got bitten by a dog.
- 2003, Richard A. Posner, Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy‎^[1], page 95:
  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.
(impersonal, informal) 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.
You get some very rude people here.

It was the kind of shop you used to get in most small towns.
- 1964, Lawrence Alloway, “Cobra Group with Lawrence Alloway, 1964”, in Guggenheim Museum Archives Reel-to-Reel collection‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 January 2025:
  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.
- 2021, 25:30 from the start, in No More Jockeys‎^[3], season 4, episode 13, spoken by Mark Watson:
  You get non-binary people – you get people who don't identify as a man or a woman.
- 2023 October 27, Laine Priestley, Mary Williams, “Boarding house destroyed by fire”, in Star News‎^[4], archived from the original on 27 August 2025:
  It was a terrible place to live. You get places like that. It is just the way it is.
(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
Synonyms: catch, come down with

I went on holiday and got malaria.
- 1965, “Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues”, in Highway 61 Revisited, performed by Bob Dylan:
  I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot / And my best friend, my doctor, won't even say what it is I've got.
(transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
Synonyms: con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick; see also Thesaurus:deceive

He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.
(transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
Synonyms: confuse, perplex, stump

That question's really got me.
(transitive) To find as an answer.
Synonym: obtain

What did you get for question four?
(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
Synonyms: catch, nab, nobble

The cops finally got me.

I'm gonna get him for that.
(transitive) To hear completely; catch.
Synonyms: catch, hear

Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?
(transitive) To getter.
Synonym: getter

I put the getter into the container to get the gases.
(now rare) To beget (of a father).
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 314:
  I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →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, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 310:
  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.
(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson
- 1662, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond, page 96:
  it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
(imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
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.
(intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
Synonyms: get out, go, leave, scram; see also Thesaurus:flee, Thesaurus:leave
- 1991, Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich, Newspaper Days, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 663:
  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 I got. 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 to get, you get, understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.
(euphemistic) To kill.
Synonyms: assault, beat, beat up

They’re coming to get you, Barbara.
- 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day‎^[5]:
  He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger
  And he slashed up Dasher just like Freddy Krueger
(intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 112:
  We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
(transitive) To measure.
Did you get her temperature?
(transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
It gets me every time!

Usage notes

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 form had 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, 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 both gotten and got as past participles, while others (e.g. dialects of Southern England) use only got. In dialects that use both, got is used for the meanings "to have" and "to have to", while gotten 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).
- Note that this does not apply to the related verbs beget, forget, whose past participles are always 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 + object	to receive, to obtain, to take	They got a cute cat today
have got + object	to have, to possess	She has got a nice garden
have got + person	to have (as a relation)	I've got a sister / a friend / a boss
have got + to	to have to (as a must)	I've got to phone a friend
get + person	to understand or to catch	You get me? / I'll get you
get + concept	to understand	He began to get the idea
get + adjective	to become	She's getting taller quickly
get + person + adjective	to cause to become	They got him full with a big dinner
get + person + object	to give or to fetch	We got them two cats / Get me my shoes
get + location adverb	to arrive, to reach	We got far away from there
get + to + location	to arrive, to reach	Soon she got to her destination
get + to + verb	to be able to, to be permitted	You get to eat ice cream
get + person + to + verb	to cause to do	We get them to dance every time
get + verb + -ing	to begin doing, to start	They got dancing right away
get + verb + -ed/-en (+ by)	to be (passive voice)	They got energized by the music

Conjugation

Conjugation of *get*
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) get

1st-person singular	get	got, gat²
2nd-person singular	get, gettest²	got, gottest², gattest²
3rd-person singular	gets, getteth²	got
plural	get	got

subjunctive	get	got

imperative	get	—

participles	getting	got, gotten, getten¹

¹ Dialectal. ² Archaic.

Derived terms

Related terms

guess

Translations

to obtain — see also obtain,‎ grab

Alabama: isi
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)
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)
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: uparisa
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)
Frisian:
North Frisian: (Mooring) füünj, (Föhr-Amrum) fu
Georgian: მიღება (miɣeba), აღება (aɣeba), მოპოვება (moṗoveba)
German: besorgen (de), holen (de), erwischen (de), kriegen (de) (colloquial), sich schnappen (de), anschaffen (de)
Greek:
Ancient Greek: 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), prendere (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
Miwok:
Central Sierra Miwok: sun·u- (wood)
Norwegian: få tak i, oppnå (no)
Old English: beġietan
Pela: ɣa³⁵, ju⁵⁵
Persian: بدست آوردن (fa) (bedast âvordan), گرفتن (fa) (gereftan)
Polish: zdobywać (pl) impf, zdobyć (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

Latin: dobivati (sh), dobiti (sh) pf
Slovak: dostať pf
Slovene: dobiti pf
Spanish: conseguir (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), கிடை (ta) (kiṭai) (used as a passive of "get")
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 — see also 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)
Frisian:
North Frisian: (Mooring) füünj, (Föhr-Amrum) fu

West Frisian: krije
Georgian: მიღება (miɣeba), აღება (aɣeba)
German: bekommen (de), (colloquial) kriegen (de)
Greek: παίρνω (el) (paírno)
Ancient Greek: 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)
Norwegian: få (no), motta
Old English: underfōn
Persian: گرفتن (fa) (gereftan)
Polish: dostawać (pl) impf, dostać (pl) pf, otrzymywać (pl) impf, otrzymać (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: tocarle, competerle, corresponderle
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)
Zazaki: gêren, groten

to become — see also become,‎ end up

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 = sich betrinken)
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰𐌽 (wairþan)
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
Polish: stać (pl) pf, stawać (pl) impf, zostać (pl) pf, zostawać (pl) impf
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: “get + adjective” is often translated by a reflexive verb, e.g.: get drunk = emborracharse, ponerse (es), dársele, diñársele, pegársele, quedar (es)
Swahili: wahi (sw), pata (sw)
Swedish: bli (sv)
Tagalog: maging
Turkish: olmak (tr)
Zazaki: biyen

to cause to become

Bulgarian: правя (bg) (pravja)
Catalan: fer convertir-se en, fer esdevenir
Dutch: maken (nl)
Finnish: saada (fi)
French: faire devenir
German: kriegen (de), machen (de) (depending on context)
Italian: far diventare
Japanese: する (ja) (suru), 至らせる (itaraseru)
Latin: ago fieri
Old English: dōn
Portuguese: deixar (pt), fazer tornar-se
Spanish: hacer volverse, volver (es), poner (es)
Swedish: få (sv), göra (sv)
Zazaki: biyayen

to fetch — see also bring

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: донасям (bg) (donasjam)
Catalan: buscar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 取 (zh) (qǔ)
Dutch: halen (nl)
Egyptian:

(jnj)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: hakea (fi), noutaa (fi)
French: ramener (fr), chercher (fr)
Georgian: მოტანა (moṭana), მიტანა (miṭana)
German: mitbringen (de), holen (de)
Icelandic: sækja
Italian: trasportare (it)
Japanese: 持ち帰る (ja) (もちかえる, mochikaeru)
Korean: 가져오다 (ko) (gajeooda)
Latin: petō (la)
Latvian: atnest, atvest
Macedonian: зе́ма (zéma)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: pegar (pt), buscar (pt)
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: приноси́ть (ru) impf (prinosítʹ), принести́ (ru) pf (prinestí)
Slovak: priniesť
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: hyś pó (on foot), jěś pó (in a vehicle)
Swedish: hämta (sv)
Tagalog: kunin
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Zazaki: arden

to don

Finnish: pukea (fi), pukeutua (fi)
Japanese: 着る (ja) (kiru), 履く (ja) (haku), 身に付ける (ja) (minitsukeru)
Korean: 입다 (ko) (ipda), 쓰다 (ko) (sseuda)
Swedish: ta (sv) på, få (sv) på
Zazaki: keren, ken

to doff

Finnish: riisua (fi), riisuuntua (fi)
Japanese: 脱ぐ (ja) (nugu)
Korean: 벗다 (ko) (beotda)
Swedish: ta (sv) av, få (sv) av
Zazaki: serwer kerden, esten

to cause to do

Dutch: doen (nl), laten (nl)
Finnish: saada (fi)
German: bringen (de), kriegen (de) (coll.)
Old English: dōn, lǣtan, beġietan
Polish: namówić (pl) pf, namawiać (pl) impf
Portuguese: fazer (pt)
Spanish: hacer que
Swedish: få (sv)
Zazaki: qandê kerden

to betake

Finnish: lähteä (fi)
Zazaki: ancen

to arrive at — see also arrive

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)
Swedish: nå (sv), komma (sv), anlända (sv)
Tagalog: dumating
Zazaki: resayen, resen

to adopt, assume (a position)

Finnish: asettua (fi)
German: einnehmen (de)
Italian: mettere (it)
Portuguese: ficar (pt)
Spanish: ponerse (es)
Zazaki: hesıbnayen

to begin

Finnish: ryhtyä + infinitive III illative
German: anfangen (de)
Korean: 시작하다 (ko) (sijakhada)
Portuguese: começar a
Swedish: börja (sv)
Zazaki: kewten

to take, catch (transportation)

Asturian: garrar (ast)
Bulgarian: хващам (bg) (hvaštam)
Dutch: nemen (nl)
Finnish: ottaa (fi)
German: nehmen (de)
Korean: 타다 (ko) (tada)
Portuguese: pegar (pt)
Spanish: tomar (es), agarrar (es)
Swedish: ta (sv)
Zazaki: peren

to respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc)

Finnish: vastata puhelimeen (to answer the phone); ottaa puhelu (lit. to take the call); avata ovi (to open the door)
German: annehmen (de) (telephone call)
Portuguese: atender (pt)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} ta (sv)
Tagalog: sumagot

to be able to, be permitted, have opportunity

Finnish: saada (fi)
German: können (de)
Portuguese: poder (pt), ter a chance de, ter a oportunidade de
Swedish: få (sv) (be allowed to), kunna (sv) (be able to)

colloquial: to understand

Azerbaijani: tutmaq (az)
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
Polish: załapać (pl) pf, łapać (pl) impf, kumać (pl) impf, czaić (pl) impf
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)

colloquial: to be — see also be

Catalan: ser (ca)
Dutch: worden (nl)
Finnish: not used
French: être (fr)
German: werden (de)
Italian: essere (it)
Latin: sum (la)
Norwegian: bli (no)
Old English: weorþan
Portuguese: ser (pt)
Scottish Gaelic: bi
Spanish: ser (es)
Swahili: wahi (sw), pata (sw)
Swedish: bli (sv)

to become ill with

Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} хващам (bg) (hvaštam)
Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ziek worden
Finnish: saada (fi)
German: bekommen (de), kriegen (de) (coll.)
Polish: złapać (pl) pf (colloquial)
Portuguese: pegar (pt)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} få (sv), bli (sv)

to catch out — see also catch

Finnish: höynäyttää (fi)
Georgian: მოტყუება (moṭq̇ueba), გაცუცურაკება (gacucuraḳeba)
German: kriegen (de), schnappen (de), erwischen (de), fassen (de)
Portuguese: pegar (pt)
Russian: подловить (ru) pf (podlovitʹ), провести (ru) pf (provesti), одурачить (ru) pf (oduračitʹ)

to perplex

Finnish: askarruttaa (fi), vaivata (fi)
Georgian: გაოცება (gaoceba)
German: drankriegen (de), erwischen (de)
Portuguese: deixar pasmo
Russian: поразить (ru) pf (porazitʹ), поставить в тупик (ru) pf (postavitʹ v tupik)

to find as an answer

Bulgarian: получавам (bg) (polučavam)
Finnish: saada (fi)
German: herausbekommen, finden (de), herauskriegen (math. / coll.)
Portuguese: dar para alguém
Swedish: få (sv)

to bring to reckoning

Finnish: napata (fi)
German: drankriegen (de) (coll.)
Portuguese: pegar (pt)
Swedish: få (sv), fånga (sv)

to physically assault

Finnish: käydä kimppuun
Polish: dorwać
Portuguese: pegar (pt)

to hear completely

Finnish: kuulla hyvin
German: mitkriegen (de), verstehen (de), mitbekommen (de)
Portuguese: ouvir direito
Swedish: uppfatta (sv), fatta (sv) (colloquial), höra (sv)

to getter — see getter

to beget — see beget

to be told; be the recipient of

Spanish: decírselo (mucho)

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Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} ambil (id), ^{(please verify)} bawa (id), ^{(please verify)} terima (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} obtener
Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} wan'da-gat, ^{(please verify)} wanthatji, ^{(please verify)} tuapongka

Noun

get (plural gets)

(dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.
- 1810, Thomas Hornby Morland, The genealogy of the English race horse, page 71:
  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.
- 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:
  You must admit that the bastard get of Paul Atreides would be no more than juicy morsels for those two [tigers].
- 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 755:
  ‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
(informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- 2008, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, page 73:
  I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.
(Internet slang) 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.

Etymology 2

Variant of git.

Noun

get (plural gets)

(UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express:
  Kylie: Oi, Bono! You lazy get! Have you finished my song yet?

Usage notes

Although get is the original word, the variant git is more common.

Etymology 3

Etymology tree

Sumerian 𒁍der.

Sumerian 𒁍𒁕bor.

Akkadian 𒁍𒁕der.?

Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ)der.

English get

From Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ).

Noun

get (plural gets or gittim or gitten)

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- 2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, George D. Chryssides, Dawoud El-Alami, Love, Sex and Marriage, page 143:
  In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:get.

Ahtna

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *gəd, and therefore cognate with Lower Tanana jet.

According to Leer (1980), the original meaning of the root was likely 'amorphous substance (e.g. smoke) moves.'

Root

get

to rot
smoke moves
to be afraid

Stem set

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Durative	get	get	get	get
Customary	giit	giit	giit	giit
Momentaneous1	giit	get	geł	giit
Neuter	get	get	get	get
Transitional	guut	guut	geł	guut
Momentaneous2	guut	guut	geł	guut

Derived terms

destget (“it is smoky”)
dghiłget (“wood is rotten”)
ghiłget (“it is rotten”)
nelaʼ tsʼenłgiidi (“mushroom”)
nenʼ łgedi (“humus”)
niget (“fear”)
nilget (“he/she is afraid”)
tełget (“it is starting to rot”)
tsiget (“a sore on the head”)

Adjective

get

rotten

References

Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 182-183

Azerbaijani

Verb

get

second-person singular imperative of getmək

Bukhari

Etymology

Etymology tree

Sumerian 𒁍der.

Sumerian 𒁍𒁕bor.

Akkadian 𒁍𒁕der.?

Hebrew גֵּט (get)bor.

Bukhari get

Borrowed from Hebrew גֵּט (get).

Pronunciation

Noun

get (Cyrillic spelling гет)

divorce

References

Gulkarov, Josef (2010), Этимологический словарь бухарско-еврейского языка с переводомна русский, англиский и иврит [Etymological Dictionary of Bukharian - Russian - English - Hebrew] (in Russian, English, and Hebrew), Tel Aviv: Union of Bukharian Jews in Israel, Jewish Agency, page 89

Chinese

Etymology

From English get.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): get¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: get¹
  - Cantonese Pinyin: get⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: géd¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛːt̚⁵/

Verb

get

(originally Hong Kong Cantonese, often with 到 (dào)) to 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't get what he means.

Icelandic

Verb

get

inflection of geta:
1. first-person singular present indicative
2. singular imperative

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew גט.

Noun

get m

divorce

Limburgish

Alternative forms

jett (Krefeld)
gätt, gädd (Eupen)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch iewet, iet. The diphthong /ie̯/ developed into /je/ word-initially, as it did in High German, and the onset was then enclitically hardened to ⟨g⟩ (/ʝ/). Cognate with Dutch iets, Central Franconian jet, northern Luxembourgish jett, gett, English aught.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʝæt/
Hyphenation: get
Rhymes: -æt

Adverb

get

some, somewhat
very
Ich woar mer get blij. ― I was very happy.

Pronoun

get

something, anything
(indefinite pronoun) Placed before a plural noun, indicating general cases of people or things: some
Doe has get höng. ― You own some dogs.

Mauritian Creole

Verb

get

Medial form of gete

Middle English

Etymology 1

From a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs).

Alternative forms

geet, gete, jet, gette, geete, jete, jeete

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛːt/, /d͡ʒɛt/

Noun

get (uncountable)

jet, hardened coal
A bead made of jet.
A jet-black pigment.

Descendants

English: jet

References

“ǧē̆t, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 April 2018.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

geet

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɛːt/, /ɡeːt/

Noun

get

plural of got (“goat”)

Old English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jet/
Rhymes: -et

Noun

ġet n (Vespasian Psalter Mercian)

alternative form of ġeat

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	ġet	geatu
accusative	ġet	geatu
genitive	ġetes	geata
dative	ġete	geatum

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jeːt/
Rhymes: -eːt

Adverb

ġēt

alternative form of ġīet

Old Norse

Etymology

From geta.

Noun

get n

(rare) a guess

Declension

Declension of *get* (strong a-stem)
neuter	singular		plural
neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	get	getit	get	getin
accusative	get	getit	get	getin
dative	geti	getinu	getum	getunum
genitive	gets	getsins	geta	getanna

Verb

get

first-person singular present indicative of geta
second-person singular imperative of geta

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

ᚵᚽᛏ

Etymology

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʝeːt/

Noun

gēt f

goat

Declension

Declension of *gēt* (consonant stem)
	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gēt	gētin, gētren gēterin, gēteren gētern	gēter	gētrina, gētrinar, gētrena, gētrenar
accusative	gēt	gētina, gētena	gēter	gētrina, gētrinar, gētrena, gētrenar
dative	gēt	gētinni, gētinne	gētum, gētom	gētumin, gētomen
genitive	gēta, gētar	gētinna, gētinnar	gēta	gētanna

Descendants

Swedish: get

Romanian

Etymology

From French Gètes, Latin Getae, from Ancient Greek Γέται (Gétai).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒet/
Rhymes: -et

Noun

get m (plural geți, feminine equivalent getă)

Get, one of the Getae, Greek name for the Dacian people
Synonym: dac

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	get	getul	geti	getii
genitive-dative	get	getului	geti	getilor
vocative	getule		getilor

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish gēt, from Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”).

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)
IPA^(key): /jeːt/

Noun

get c

goat

Declension

Declension of **get**
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	get	gets
singular	definite	geten	getens
plural	indefinite	getter	getters
plural	definite	getterna	getternas

Derived terms

Getapulien (“Småland, south-Swedish region”)
getskägg (“goatee”)

References

“get”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
“get”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
“get”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
Svensk MeSH

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɛt/

Verb

get (third-person singular geeth, simple past godth)

to get
- 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:
  Caulès will na get to wullaw to-die.
  Horses will not get to wallow to-day.

References

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, published 1867, page 111

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