different between got vs getting

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• (Boston, New England) IPA^(key): /??t/, /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

got

1. simple past tense of get

2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) past participle of get

3. Expressing obligation; used with have.

4. (Southern US, with to) Must; have/has (to).
5. (Southern US, nonstandard) Have.

6. (Singapore, colloquial) Have, there is.

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."
• (have): In nonstandard speech the verb may be reinterpreted as a regular present tense, so that the form gots appears in the third-person singular present, e.g. She gots a red bike.

Synonyms

• (must, have (to)): gotta (informal)

have got= have

Anagrams

• GTO, OTG, TGO, tog

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /???t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus.

Noun

got m (plural gots)

1. glass (drinking glass)

Synonyms

• tassó
• vas

Etymology 2

From Latin Gothus.

Noun

got m (plural gots, feminine goda)

1. Goth

Derived terms

• gòtic (“Gothic”)

Finnish

Noun

got

1. nominative plural of go

German Low German

Adjective

got (comparative b?ter or bäter)

1. Alternative spelling of goot

See also

• god

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch goot (“gutter”), from Middle Dutch g?te, from Old Dutch *gota, from Proto-Germanic *gut?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???t]
• Hyphenation: got

Noun

got (first-person possessive gotku, second-person possessive gotmu, third-person possessive gotnya)

1. gutter, a prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

   Synonym: selokan

Further reading

• “got” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch got, from Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gud?.

Noun

got m

1. god
2. the Christian God

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• god

Descendants

• Dutch: god, God
• Limburgish: gód, Gód

Further reading

• “got”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “god”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page god

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

got

1. Alternative form of goot

Etymology 2

Noun

got

1. Alternative form of gutte

Middle Low German

Etymology 1

From Old Saxon g?d, from Proto-West Germanic *g?d, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz.

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /?o?t/

Adjective

gôt (comparative b?ter, superlative best)

1. good

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: god

Etymology 2

From Old Saxon god, from Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

got m (genitive godes or gades, plural gode or gade)

1. god

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós.

Noun

got m

1. god

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: got
  • Dutch: god, God
  • Limburgish: gód, Gód

Further reading

• “got”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Alternative forms

• cot

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gud?, from Proto-Indo-European *??utós.

Compare Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English god, Old Dutch got, Old Norse guð, Gothic ???????????? (guþ).

Noun

got m

1. god

Derived terms

• gotmann
• irmingot

Descendants

• Middle High German: got
  • Alemannic German: Gott
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: Gott

    Mòcheno: Gott

  • Central Franconian: Jott
  • German: Gott
  • Luxembourgish: Gott
  • Yiddish: ????? (got)

Romanian

Etymology

From French Goth, from Latin Gothus.

Noun

got m (plural go?i)

1. Goth

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

got

1. Soft mutation of cot.

Mutation

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ko?t? (“to hug; to embrace”). Cogante with Thai ??? (g???t), Lao ??? (k?t), Shan ????? (kòat).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ko?t??/
• Tone numbers: got⁷
• Hyphenation: got

Verb

got (old orthography got)

1. to hug; to embrace.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t??/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [??????]
  • (US)
  • (Cockney, younger speakers in the UK) IPA^(key): [??e???]

Verb

getting

1. present participle of get

Noun

getting (plural gettings)

1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

   • With all thy getting, get understanding.

2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
   • 1882, Charlotte Riddell, "Old Mrs Jones", in Weird Stories, page 135

     She was always considering how to increase her "gettings," but she never gave a thought as to how she might save them.

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