got
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɒt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɑt/
- (Boston, New England) IPA(key): /ɡʌt/, /ɡɒt/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒt
VerbEdit
got
- simple past tense of get
- We got the last bus home.
- (Britain, New Zealand) past participle of get
- By that time we'd got very cold.
- I've got two children.
- How many children have you got?
- Expressing obligation.
- I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.
- (Southern US, with to) must; have (to).
- I got to go study.
- 1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry, Ode Records
- We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
- (Southern US, Britain, slang) have
- They got a new car.
- He got a lot of nerve.
- (Southern US, African American Vernacular, euphemistic, slang) to be murdered
- He got got.
Usage notesEdit
- (past participle of get): The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?"
- (past participle of get): The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see Usage Notes on "get" for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases.
- (expressing obligation): "Got" is a filler word here with no obvious grammatical or semantic function. "I have to study for my exams" has the same meaning. It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."
SynonymsEdit
- (must, have (to)): gotta (informal)
StatisticsEdit
Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: de · whole · find · #191: got · let · world · thing
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus.
NounEdit
got m (plural gots)
- glass (drinking glass)
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
got m (plural gots, feminine goda)
Derived termsEdit
- gòtic (“Gothic”)
German Low GermanEdit
LojbanEdit
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Dutch got, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.
NounEdit
got m
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative formsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
Middle Low GermanEdit
Pronunciation 1Edit
- Stem vowel: ô¹
EtymologyEdit
From Old Saxon gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
AdjectiveEdit
gôt (comparative bēter, superlative best)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of got
| nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong declension | ||||
| Masculine | gôt | gôden | gôdem(e) (gôdennote) | gôdes |
| Neuter | gôt | |||
| Feminine | gôde | gôder(e) | ||
| Plural | gôde | gôden | gôder(e) | |
| Weak declension | ||||
| Masculine | gôde | gôden | gôden | |
| Neuter | gôde | |||
| Feminine | gôden | |||
| Plural | gôden | |||
| The longer forms become rarer in the course of the period. | ||||
DescendantsEdit
- Low German: god
Pronunciation 2Edit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Saxon god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.
NounEdit
got m (genitive godes or gades, plural gode or gade)
Old DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old High German got, Old Norse guð.
NounEdit
got m
DeclensionEdit
Declension of got
DescendantsEdit
- Dutch: god