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== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɡɛt/ IPA(key): (regionally restricted) /ɡɪt/ Rhymes: -ɛt, -ɪt === Etymology 1 === From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną. Cognate with Old English ġietan (whence also English yet), Old Saxon getan (“to get, to gain sth.”), Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”). ==== Verb ==== 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) To obtain; to acquire. Synonyms: acquire, come by, have; see also Thesaurus:achieve, Thesaurus:acquire Antonym: lose (transitive) To receive. Synonyms: receive, be given; see also Thesaurus:receive (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. I've got a concert ticket for you. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take. Synonyms: bring, fetch, retrieve (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 November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about. Synonyms: cause to be, cause to become, make (transitive) To cause to do. Synonym: make (transitive) To cause to come or go or move. (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 (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling. (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something). Synonyms: begin, commence, start; see also Thesaurus:begin (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service). Synonyms: catch, take (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc). Synonym: answer (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 (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it) Synonyms: dig, follow, make sense of, understand (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.). (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 (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. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease). Synonyms: catch, come down with (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully. Synonyms: con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick; see also Thesaurus:deceive (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump. Synonyms: confuse, perplex, stump (transitive) To find as an answer. Synonym: obtain (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution. Synonyms: catch, nab, nobble (transitive) To hear completely; catch. Synonyms: catch, hear (transitive) To getter. Synonym: getter (now rare) To beget (of a father). (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose. (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram. Synonyms: get out, go, leave, scram; see also Thesaurus:flee, Thesaurus:leave (euphemistic) To kill. Synonyms: assault, beat, beat up (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit. (transitive) To measure. (transitive) To cause someone to laugh. ===== 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. 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: ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== guess ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== get (plural gets) (dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate. Lineage. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot. (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition. (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”). ===== Usage notes ===== Although get is the original word, the variant git is more common. === Etymology 3 === From Hebrew גֵּט (gēṭ). ==== Noun ==== get (plural gets or gittim or gitten) (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce. ===== Quotations ===== For quotations using this term, see Citations:get. ===== Alternative forms ===== gett ghet === References === === Further reading === “get”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “get”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === GTE, TGE, teg == Azerbaijani == === Verb === get second-person singular imperative of getmək == Chinese == === Etymology === From English get. === Pronunciation === === Verb === get (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: first-person singular present indicative 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/ ==== Noun ==== ġet n (Vespasian Psalter Mercian) alternative form of ġeat ===== Declension ===== Strong a-stem: === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /jeːt/ ==== Adverb ==== ġēt alternative form of ġīet == Old Norse == === Etymology === From geta. === Noun === get n (rare) a guess ==== Declension ==== === Verb === get first-person singular present indicative of geta second-person singular imperative of geta === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “get”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive == Old Swedish == === Alternative forms === ᚵᚽᛏ === Etymology === From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʝeːt/ === Noun === gēt f goat ==== Declension ==== ==== 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 ==== == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish gēt, from Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /jeːt/ === Noun === get c goat ==== Declension ==== ==== 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 === teg == 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 === 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