got

English Online Dictionary. What means got‎? What does got mean?

Translingual

Symbol

got

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gothic.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Gothic terms

English

Pronunciation

• UK
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒt/
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ɡɔt/
• US
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑt/
  • (African-American) IPA^(key): /ɡaʔ/
  • (New England, Boston) IPA^(key): /ɡʌt/, /ɡɒt/
• Australia / New Zealand
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɡɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

Verb

got (third-person singular simple present got or (nonstandard) gots, no present participle, simple past (by suppletion) had, no past participle)

1. Expressing obligation; used with have.

2. (colloquial, with to) Must; have/has (to).
3. (colloquial, regional or nonstandard) Have/has.

Verb

got

1. simple past of get

2. past participle of get

Usage notes

• (expressing obligation): "Got" is a filler word in the following example with no obvious grammatical or semantic function: "I've got to study for my exams" has the same meaning as "I have to study for my exams". It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."
• (have): In nonstandard speech, "got" 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.
• (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.

Synonyms

• (must, have (to), have got to): gotta (informal)

Etymology 2

Analogous to Chinese 有, such as Hokkien 有 (ū), Cantonese 有 (jau⁵), Mandarin 有 (yǒu). Sense 1 is also comparable to Malay ada.

Verb

got (invariable)

2. (Singlish, Manglish) Have; there is (indicates possession or existence).
4. (Singlish, auxiliary) Marks the completive or experiential aspect.

   Synonym: (Singlish, experiential aspect only) ever

   You got shower? ― Have you showered?

   I got ski. ― I went skiing.

   I got ski before. ― I have skied before.
6. (Singlish, auxiliary) Used as a marker of realis modality.

   I got go Taiwan next year. ― I’m already/actually going to Taiwan next year.

8. (Singlish, auxiliary) Used to emphasize that an action has been done.

   I got tell them just now.

10. (Singlish, auxiliary) Marks the habitual aspect in the present or past tense.

    I got cook meals for them. ― I cook meals for them; I would cook meals for them (now and then or regularly).

    You got play badminton? ― Do you play badminton?

Derived terms

• where got

References

• Nomoto, Hiroki, Lee, Nala Huiying (2012) “Realis, factuality and derived-level statives: Perspectives from the analysis of Singlish got”, in Cahiers Chronos, volume 25, →ISSN, pages 219-239

Anagrams

• GTO, OTG, TGO, tog

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus. Cognate with Ladin got, Venetan goto, Italian gotto.

Noun

got m (plural gots)

1. glass (drinking glass)

   Synonyms: tassó, vas

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin Gothus.

Noun

got m (plural gots, feminine goda)

1. Goth

Derived terms

• gòtic (“Gothic”)

Related terms

• ostrogot
• visigot

Further reading

• “got”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Finnish

Noun

got

1. nominative plural of go

German Low German

Adjective

got (comparative bȩter or bäter)

1. Alternative spelling of goot

See also

• god

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch goot (“gutter”), from Middle Dutch gōte, from Old Dutch *gota, from Proto-Germanic *gutō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔt]
• Hyphenation: got

Noun

got

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)

   Synonyms: apuran, selokan, comberan, talang

Further reading

• “got” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

got

1. Romanization of ꦒꦺꦴꦠ꧀

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *gottus, from Latin guttus. Cognate with Catalan got, Venetan goto, Italian gotto.

Noun

got m (plural goc)

1. (Gherdëina, Badiot) glass (drinking glass)

Alternative forms

• taza (Fascian)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

got m

1. god
2. the Christian God

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• god

Descendants

• Dutch: god, God
  • Afrikaans: 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 High German

Etymology

From Old High German got, from Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós, from *ǵʰew- + *-tós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈɡot/

Noun

got m

1. god; deity

Declension

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Gott
• Bavarian:
  • Cimbrian: Gott
  • Mòcheno: Gott
• Central Franconian: Jott
  • Hunsrik: Gott
  • Luxembourgish: Gott
• German: Gott
• Low German:
  • German Low German:
    • Plautdietsch: Gott
• Rhine Franconian:
  • Pennsylvania German: Gott
• Yiddish: גאָט (got)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “got”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "got" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Middle Low German

Etymology 1

From Old Saxon gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /ɣoːt/

Adjective

gôt (comparative bēter, superlative best)

1. good

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: god

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɔt/

Noun

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

1. god

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.

Noun

got m

1. god

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: got
  • Dutch: god, God
    • Afrikaans: 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 *gudą.

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

Noun

got m

1. god

Declension

Derived terms

• fiurgot
• fuotargot
• gotmann
• irmingot

Descendants

• Middle High German: got
  • Alemannic German: Gott
  • Bavarian:
    • Cimbrian: Gott
    • Mòcheno: Gott
  • Central Franconian: Jott
    • Hunsrik: Gott
    • Luxembourgish: Gott
  • German: Gott
  • Low German:
    • German Low German:
      • Plautdietsch: Gott
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: Gott
  • Yiddish: גאָט (got)

References

• "got" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

Polish

Etymology

Back-formation of gotyk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: got
• Homophone: Got

Noun

got m pers (female equivalent gotka)

1. (music) goth (person who is part of the goth subculture)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• got in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• got in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Goth, from Latin Gothus.

Noun

got m (plural goți)

1. Goth

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish gotar. Doublet of gute. Compare origin of göt.

Noun

got c

1. (historical) Goth (member of the ancient group of peoples)

Declension

Derived terms

• västgot
• östgot

References

• got in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• got in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• got in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• got in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔt/

Noun

got

1. Soft mutation of cot.

Mutation

Yola

Verb

got

1. Alternative form of godth

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *koːtᴰ (“to hug; to embrace”). Cognate with Thai กอด (gɔ̀ɔt), Lao ກອດ (kǭt), Shan ၵွတ်ႇ (kàut).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /koːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: got⁷
• Hyphenation: got

Verb

got (1957–1982 spelling got)

1. to hug; to embrace.