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noun 
  1. A git.
verb (gets, getting, got, got, (North American or British archaic) gotten )
  1. (transitive) To obtain, purchase or acquire.
I'm going to a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
You need to permission to leave early.
  1. (transitive) To receive.
I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
''He got a severe reprimand for that.
  1. (transitive) To fetch.
Can you my bag from the living-room, please?
  1. (intransitive) To become.
I'm getting hungry, how about you?
Don't drunk tonight.
  1. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about
That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.
I'll this finished by lunchtime.
I can't these boots off.
  1. (transitive) To cause to do.
Somehow she got him to agree to it.
I can't it to work.
  1. (intransitive) To arrive at or progress towards (a place or outcome).
When are we going to to London?
We're slowly getting there.
Get over here!
  1. (intransitive) (with various prepositions, such as into, over, behind etc.; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over etc.) To adopt or assume (a certain position or state).
The actors are getting into position.
I'm getting into a muddle.
We got behind the wall.
  1. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
We ought to moving or we'll be late.
After lunch we got chatting.
  1. (transitive) To catch a means of public transport.
I normally the 7.45 train.
  1. (context, transitive, idiom) To answer the phone or the door, etc.
Can you that call, please? I'm busy.
  1. (intransitive) (with infinitive) To be able, permitted; to have the opportunity (to do something).
I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!
  1. (context, transitive, colloquial) To understand.
Yeah, I it, it's just not funny.
He's weird. I don't him.
Do you math class?
I don't what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
  1. (context, transitive) To be; used to form a passive voice.
He got bitten by a dog.
  1. (context, transitive, colloquial) To catch (a disease).
I went on holiday and got malaria.
  1. (context, transitive, colloquial) To catch out, trick.
He keeps calling pretending to be my boss – it gets me every time.
  1. (context, transitive, colloquial) To perplex, stump.
That question's really got me.
  1. (transitive) To find as an answer.
What did you for question four?
  1. (context, transitive, colloquial) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to physically assault.
The cops finally got me.
I'm gonna him for that.
  1. (context, transitive, colloquial) To hear.
Sorry, I didn't that. Could you repeat it?
Translations: 
  • Dutch: worden
  • French: devenir; ( + <adjective> is often translated by a reflexive verb in French; get drunk = s'enivrer)
  • German: werden, in some cases: gehen (sometimes translated by a reflexive verb: get drunk = sich betrinken)
  • Italian: divenire, diventare; ( + <adjective> is often translated by a reflexive verb in Italian; get drunk = ubriacarsi)
  • Spanish: volverse, convertirse en; ( + <adjective> is often translated by a reflexive verb in Spanish; get drunk = emborracharse)

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