få conjugation

Swedish verbs do not change for person: jag får, du får, hon får, vi får, de får. Learn one form per tense and you can use it with everyone.

How få conjugates

Group 4 holds the strong and irregular verbs. They change their vowel in the past and supine (skriva → skrev, skrivit) or are fully irregular (vara → är, var, varit). They are few, but they are the most frequent verbs in the language, so they are worth learning one by one. få is one of them: får, fick, fått. Learn these forms together.

Passive (s-form)

Swedish makes the passive by adding -s: the doer drops out and the thing acted on becomes the subject. Spoken Swedish often prefers bli + past participle.

Meanings and examples

Patterns: ngn = någon (someone) · ngt = något (something) · SATS = a clause · VERB = a verb · PLATS = a place · RIKTNING = a direction · TID = a time · SÄTT = a manner · ADJ = an adjective

Phrases with få

Swedish builds many meanings by adding a particle (upp, ut, på, om) or a fixed phrase. These are the ones the dictionary lists:

• få syn påcatch sight of
• få tag påget hold of ("manage to obtain or find")
• få bukt medget the better of, manage
• få på köpetget into the bargain ("get something free when buying another item")
• få tag iget hold of
• få tillfälle attget the chance to, have the opportunity to
• få lov atthave to, be forced to
• få med ("publicera") en artikel i en tidningget ("publish") an article in a paper

få in real stories

Sentences from the Smisli reading library where this verb appears:

• Plötsligt får Erik en idé.Vargen i skogen, episode 3
• Mannen får tag i halsduken.Flykten från ishotellet, episode 5
• Erik skulle inte få några pengar.Midsommarmordet, episode 2