Get / Got / Getting etc.

[Fazor]

¿Que es la traducción mejor por 'get' cuando se usa para 'become'. Creo que es 'hacer', pero no sé si estoy correcto. Por ejemplo:

I am getting better.
Estoy haciendo mejor.

My oatmeal got cold.
Mis harina de avena hizo frío.

Y "get" para adquirir? Por ejemplo:

The girl gets candy every day.
La niña hace los dulces todas las días.

[pjt33]

Estoy mejorando.
Mi avena se enfrió. (I think).
A esa niña le dan caramelos todos los días.

[Fazor]

Okay, that's the impression I got (that there's not particularly a word for "get") but when I look up "get" in the dictionary, it lists the reflexive "hacerse" as a translation to mean (become) and if I look up "become", it also lists "hacerse".

[poli]

It is that get has many meanings. When get means obtain you can certainly use obtener.
When get means become, as to to get sick, you can use the
ponerse.

[Fazor]

Busqué "enfrió" en el diccionario. Dice que con comida (o bebida), puede usar 'ponerse frío'. Mi avena se puso frío.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes you are right.

My food got col

Mi comida se enfrio.

Enfrio can be used for the use in objects and food too.

Mi carro se enfrio.

My car got cold.

Mi sopa se enfrio.

My soap got cold

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Mi sopa se enfrio.

My soap got cold

Soup. Soap es jabón.

[Perikles]

To be honest, in BrE the verb "get" is not very good, well it sounds terrible to me. In most cases, there is a better verb, and if there is, this is the verb to translate into Spanish.

Example: My soup got cold. My soup has gone cold

I challenge anybody to come up with a sentence with "get (or got)" in it where I can't find a better verb. (There are some ). Do you get the message?

[irmamar]

Don't you say "I have got a cold" instead "I have a cold" for "yo tengo un resfriado" (for instance)?. Or even: I've got some money, a house, etc. instead of using simply "have" (I have some money, a house, etc). I think "I've got" (you, he, etc.) is most used in BrE than in AmE

[poli]

Originally Posted by Perikles

To be honest, in BrE the verb "get" is not very good, well it sounds terrible to me. In most cases, there is a better verb, and if there is, this is the verb to translate into Spanish.

Example: My soup got cold. My soup has gone cold

I challenge anybody to come up with a sentence with "get (or got)" in it where I can't find a better verb. (There are some ). Do you get the message?

Get thee to a nunnery.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by poli

Get thee to a nunnery.

Shakespeare doesn't count! Get lost.

[poli]

I already am lost

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by poli

Get thee to a nunnery.

Originally Posted by Perikles

Shakespeare doesn't count! Get lost.

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by Perikles

I challenge anybody to come up with a sentence with "get (or got)" in it where I can't find a better verb. (There are some ). Do you get the message?

Received loud and clear. The question is whether I should sit around trying to think up a sentence or get a life.

[chileno]

I really don't get it.....

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

This is so wrong: I spent so many years trying to learn the uses and meanings of "to get" just to find native speakers find it lazy and inappropriate.

*crazy*

[Rusty]

Don't despair, or toss your learning aside. We Americans have a love affair with the word.

[Alin]

The Romanian language doesn't have "get". Almost every use of get, which is "sa faci" in Romanian, translates to hacer in Spanish.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

This is so wrong: I spent so many years trying to learn the uses and meanings of "to get" just to find native speakers find it lazy and inappropriate.

*crazy*

Is part of the process of learning any language.

Do you really think people learning Spanish north of your border get to learn about órale (just to mention 1 word of the thousands) and then tell them they are learning Spanish (to top it off)

Don't despair! The best is yet to come.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by pjt33

Received loud and clear. The question is whether I should sit around trying to think up a sentence or get a life.

Nice one

Originally Posted by chileno

I really don't get it.....

Yes, OK

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

This is so wrong: I spent so many years trying to learn the uses and meanings of "to get" just to find native speakers find it lazy and inappropriate.

But you can still use it when speaking to lazy and inappropriate people. Life is like that - get real