get
/ɡɛt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 6.28 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
Example Sentences
- "I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store."
- "Lance is going to get Mary a ring."
- "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."
- "I've got a concert ticket for you."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɛt/
- British English: /ɡɛt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
gets (present, singular)
getting (participle, present)
got (past)
gat (Northern England, Scotland)
got (participle, past)
gotten (Australia, Canada)
getten (Geordie, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
got (first person, past)
gat (archaic, first person)
gettest (archaic, present)