English - Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑt/
• (Boston, New England) IPA^(key): /ɡʌt/, /ɡɒt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

English - Verb

got

1. simple past tense of get

   We got the last bus home.

2. (UK, 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?

3. Expressing obligation.

   I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.

4. (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!

5. (Southern US, UK, slang) have

   They got a new car.

   He got a lot of nerve.

Usage notes

• (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."

Synonyms

• (must, have (to)): gotta (informal)

English - Anagrams

• tog

Catalan - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔt/

Catalan - Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus.

Noun

got m (plural gots)

1. glass (drinking glass)

Synonyms

• tassó
• vas

Catalan - Etymology 2

From Latin Gothus.

Noun

got m (plural gots, feminine goda)

1. Goth

Derived terms

• gòtic (“Gothic”)

German Low German - Adjective

got

1. Alternative spelling of goot

German Low German - See Also

• god

Lojban - Rafsi

got

1. rafsi of gotro.

Old Dutch - Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto-. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old High German got, Old Norse guð.

Old Dutch - Noun

got m

1. god

Declension

Descendants

• Dutch: god

Old High German - Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto-. Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old Dutch got, Old Norse guð, Gothic

Old High German - Noun

got m

1. god

Descendants

• German: Gott
• Yiddish: גאָט (got)

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