تمام معانی Get

The many meanings of “Get”

Cheers, mate! oh mate, I’ve gotta tell you about last night. It was a crazy night! Right, so I’m at my house. I’m getting ready, get dressed, get my shoes on. Get out of the house and get myself a taxi, to get to the club I got to the club about 10 - 10:30 I got free tickets to this cub from a guy I’m getting to know at work He’s a nice guy, he’s new, but, Last time I spoke to him he was like “Mate, you’re getting fat!” And I’m like “Mate! I’m getting pretty offended by what you’re saying here!” Do you get me?

Anyway, once we get into the club I get to the bar, get myself a drink, i’m getting my money out, right? And I get kissed by this girl next to me. And she is gorgeous She kinda looks like Amy Winehouse But anyway as she’s putting her hand in my pocket, I’m like “This is getting a bit crazy here!” “Get your hand out of my pocket! This is getting a bit crazy!” But at the same time I’m thinking You don’t get this opportunity very often, do ya? It’s not often you get kissed by a beautiful girl who looks like Amy Winehouse Do you get me? Then I remember “Oh I’ve gotta go! I’ve got a meeting in the morning!” So I tell the girl “I’ve gotta go, I’ll see you later!”

I got her number anyway Get a taxi, get back to my hotel I’m at my hotel room I get out my keycard, but it’s not there! It’s missing Do you know what I think happened? I think it got stolen by that Amy Winehouse girl Sometimes I just don’t get it So we all know that “Get” basically can mean receive or obtained for example you could buy something Yeah I can’t draw cats You could say: so of course this is the most common way of understanding “Get” it means receive maybe you bought the cat. Don’t buy cats! Always adopt! So “get” can mean “buy” But not just “Buy”,

Maybe someone gave you the cat as a present. Maybe it’s your birthday. It’ll be an amazing birthday present for my birthday. Please get me a cat. But, that’s just one meaning of get and there are many, many meetings of get, if you add a preposition with get, you have a phrasal verb. And get appears many times in phrasal verbs. In fact, it’s so complex. We need a new video to explain them. Here are just five and we explain those five in this video on my belly. If you’ve already seen this video, let’s continue. Another meaning of get is catch. And we say you catch the bus.

So, in this case you could say I got the bus in the past or I get the bus every day in the present tense. For example, and not just for a bus you could get a taxi. Get the train. Get a plane or boat. Any public transport the boats public try guess boat was a public transport on me he’s sick he has a cold. So, we can say he caught a cold in past . But remember, we can use get to replace catch. So, as a sentence I got a cold. That’s a few meanings of get here are some more. So, you got the bus. you are on the bus. You’re going to meet your friend and your friend wants to know what time will you arrive. And you say this. He could say i’ll arrive in 10 minutes.

But, in natural speech that’s not how we say it. We use get. But, you can’t just say I’ll get in 10 minutes. That doesn’t sound good. You must have a destination after get. So, i’ll get to the office. I’ll get to your house or get to the pub or just, i’ll get there. I’ll get there in 10 minutes. To clarify I’ll get in 10 minutes. knew how that’s another meaning of get. Now, I’m teaching it. I understand why you hate it so much. And then, finally you get there, you meet your friend and your friend says, wow, you got fat. That’s not nice. But, what does he mean you got fat? What word could we replace this?

With became you, became that or the opposite you became skinny. You got skinny. If you win the lottery. You get rich. If you lose all that money in a casino you get poor. Again, so, there’s another meaning of get. Become in a more complex sentence. You can use get like this. Let’s imagine, you’re walking with your friend and you’re talking about Game of Thrones or walking dead and you’re annoying friend who always tells you what happens in the episode, you haven’t seen yet they say, oh my god. You know got killed last night in the episode of walking dead.

Hair so now you hate your friend. But, also who got killed. Why did he say it like that? Well, in this case get replaces the verb be in a passive sentence. Know, if you’ve seen our lesson on the passive. You know that to make a passive sentence we need the verb be and the verb three or past participle. However, you want to call it those make a passive sentence. For example, I was born in London. That’s a passive sentence. The verb be I was born bear or born that’s over. Three, so, the verb get replaces the verb be. So, really he could say movement was killed him walking dead.

Now, you should know that this is a more informal way of using the passive voice and in some cases you can’t use get in a passive voice to replace. B, let me give you an example. I was born in london. I can’t say I got born in London that’s not just. No, but, if you say for example, my car was stolen. i can save my car got stolen. That’s okay. It sounds a bit more informal. but, it’s okay. Also you can’t use it with stative verbs. It won’t make sense. For example, a sentence like everyone knows thomas stupid. That’s an active sentence. Let’s change it to passive. It is known that Thomas stupid. That’s passive. Now, let’s change the verb be forget it gets known that Thomas stupid now that doesn’t make sense. So, stative verbs. No, but a movement an action verb like I got arrested.

That’s fine. But, just remember it sounds less formal. That’s it weird right and in some common expressions it means to start being something very similar to become. But, we use it in such expressions like get married. Get divorced. Get fired. Get engaged. Get lost. These gets mean you start being that thing. So, when you get married. It means you start being married. And now hopefully you won’t get lost. Because, we’ve explained the many uses of get another way to use get is with possessions. For example I can say I have blah blah. I have a cat. that’s a possession and that’s fine. but, it’s not very common to say. I have a cat. It sounds a bit too formal.

Today, it’s much more common to say I have got a cat or contracted to I’ve got a cat. That’s positive. What this in- the- goes with this verb? I haven’t got a cat. A common mistake. I see with this is when people say I have a cat. they think the negative is I haven’t a cat. It is the negative, but it’s that sounds really old-fashioned. It’s much more common to say I don’t have a cat or I haven’t got a cat. If you’re talking about possessions in the negative. So, when you say have got it’s about a possession. I have got that’s a possession. Don’t confuse it. With I have got to do something that means something different, what does it mean?

Let’s have a look when you must go, you have to go there, some obligation. You can replace that obligation word. Master have 24 have got to again the contraction is better. I’ve got two. So, again, you could say I have to go. I must go. Sure, that’s fine. but, again I’ve Got to go is more common. So, that is for an obligation and you notice that that is a positive sentence. But, be careful. Because, if we change this to a negative. I haven’t got to go. It doesn’t mean the same as I mustn’t this removes the obligation. So, in other words the option is there. I could go. I could stay. But, I haven’t got to there’s no obligation for me to go I have got to go. I must go. I haven’t got to go. I have a choice in a sentence can you stay? Or have you got to go?

No. I haven’t got to go. I can stay. It’s a choice. I’ve got a meeting. So, I’ve got to go. We have another video explaining more about the pronunciation of got to click on my bending to see that. So, do you get it now? Oh, what’s that another meaning of get if I ask, do you get it or if I say, oh, I get it. What do I mean? So, you want to say. Oh, I understand now. Then you’d say, oh, I get it. But, be careful you can’t use it for everything. That would be too easy. For example, you can say I understand five languages. I don’t understand five languages. That’s no but, you can’t say I get five languages. No, it means you understand now. You finally, oh, so, it’s more like you understand. Now, oh I get it. So, now, i think you get how to use get in many situations. now get out there and practice. Thank you for watching a lesson.