Swedish noun· top 5,000 most common

en get

goat/jeːt/

Meaning

goat

In Swedish: husdjur av släktet Capra

Forms

Forms of get
Singular, indefiniteen get
Singular, definitegeten
Plural, indefinitegetter
Plural, definitegetterna

get is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor get, den stora geten. Check another noun

Practise get

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Is it en get or ett get?

Questions

What does get mean in English?

get means “goat”.

Is it en get or ett get?

It is en get, and “the goat” is geten.

What is the plural of get?

The plural of get is getter, and the definite plural is getterna.

Origin

From Old Swedish gēt, from Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”).

Nearby common words

get is number 3,086 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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