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How to spell got

What it means: Received, bought, or came to have.

In a sentence: I got a new toy at the store. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as gott or gotte.

Same family: get, getting, gets, gotten, forget. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Got” is the past tense of “get,” which comes from Old Norse *geta*, meaning “to obtain” or “to reach.” Over time, English speakers began using “got” in many everyday phrases like “got it,” “have got,” and “I’ve got to go.”

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