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This week I was preparing a text and I came across the English verb to get. And I thought, my mother, how difficult is translating the verb to get to Spanish? But why? Because there isn't one single verb in Spanish that always works when translating to get. Instead, you need to think about the real meaning in context to find the correct verb in Spanish. And that's exactly what we're going to do next. Come on, let's go! Let's start with two examples. But these two examples with the verb to get in English need a different verb in Spanish. If you want to say in Spanish, I got a new job last week. Here, got means more achieve. If this is the case, then get is going to be translated as conseguir. So, I got a new job last week would be conseguir un nuevo trabajo la semana pasada. Bueno, el siguiente ejemplo en inglés es my brother got a bike for his birthday. Now, in this case, got means more like received because he received that bike as a gift. If that's the case, we simply use the verb recibir to receive in Spanish. Therefore, to say my brother got a bike for his birthday, you would say So, we have already seen that to get can turn into two very different Spanish verbs. One is conseguir when we mean more achieving or recibir when we mean more receiving. However, things get a little bit more complex with prepositions because in English, you can add on app in to to get. But in Spanish, we have specific different verbs for this. Por ejemplo, if you want to say they get up early every morning, we are going to need the lovely reflexive verb levantarse which means to get up. So, they get up early every morning is se levantan pronto o temprano cada mañana. Now, if you want to say he doesn't get on with his mother-in-law, to get on with someone is llevarse bien con alguien. Llevarse bien con alguien. Then you would say He doesn't get on well with his mother-in-law. If you want to say you got off the train at the wrong station, then we need bajarse de to say to get off from somewhere. You got off the train at the wrong station is te bajaste del tren en la estación equivocada. Similarly, imagine that you want to say to a friend of yours, get on the bus, it's about to live because maybe you really don't want to miss that bus, then we need the verb subir a to say to get on somewhere, in this case the bus. Then to say get on the bus is about to live, you would say sube al autobús, está a punto de salir. It may seem difficult to you but let me tell you something, mastering the meanings of get with a preposition, what we call free-sal verbs in English such as to get on, to get off, to get into, is really difficult for learners of English too. I still struggle with this. Bueno, ¿qué te parece si hacemos una pequeña práctica? I'm going to give you three sentences that use the verb to get in English and then you need to translate them into Spanish but every single one of them will require a different verb in Spanish for to get. Venga, vamos! La primera frase es we got a table at the restaurant. Now think carefully about what we really mean by we got in this particular case so that you know exactly which Spanish verb we need. We got a table at the restaurant. Tradúcila. La respuesta es conseguimos una mesa en el restaurante and we are using conseguir because we are really saying that we achieve in the sense that we secure a table in the restaurant. Muy bien, la siguiente frase es she got off the bus in the city center. La respuesta es se bajó o ella se bajó del autobús en el centro de la ciudad. So here got off refers to leaving the transport so we use bajarse de se bajó del autobús. Venga, una última frase. They get up late on Sundays. Se levantan tarde los domingos o ellos se levantan tarde los domingos. Now you know that to get up means levantarse, que también es un verbo reflexivo. Se levantan they get up. Muy bien, now if you have enjoyed this little translation challenge don't forget that you can also practice even more with our mini video lessons. You may already know our coffee break app but it not. Head over to coffeebreaktv.com where you will find hundreds of short lessons in French, Italian, German and Spanish of course to keep building your skills. Bueno, pero antes de acabar vamos a hacer un pequeño resumen de todo. So the English verb to get can be translated in many different ways depending on the context in Spanish. Por ejemplo, to get can be conseguir if we mean to get something in the sense of achieving it. To get can also be recibir if we mean to get something in the sense of receiving it. And then we have several phrasal verbs that translate into Spanish using a different Spanish verb. Por ejemplo, to get up means levantarse. To get on well with someone we say llevarse bien con alguien. To get off a train or a bus we would say bajarse de and to get on a bus for example we would say subir a, en este caso subir al autobús. Bueno pues eso es todo por hoy. I really hope you found this very helpful. Ya estaría. Nos vemos muy pronto y como siempre happy coffee breaking. You have been listening to a Coffee Break Languages production for the Radio Linguin network. Copyright 2025 Radio Linguin Limited. Recording Copyright 2025 Radio Linguin Limited. All rights reserved. You already know this but finding work can be hard. And a lack of experience as well as not knowing where to start doesn't make it any easier. But what does make it easier is job help, free online support from the government. Get help with your CV, learn to build your skills, find jobs and apprenticeships and stand out from the crowd. Boost your chances of landing your next opportunity. Search job help today. 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