How do you translate "get" into Spanish? | A Coffee Break with Pablo
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Do you know how to translate the word ‘get’ into Spanish? This small word can be translated in many different ways, making it a big challenge for learners of Spanish.
That’s why in this episode Pablo shows you how to think when translating ‘to get’, replacing it with clearer alternatives like conseguir (to achieve), recibir (to receive), or specific verbs for phrasal verbs such as levantarse (to get up) and bajar de (to get off).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
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| 1:04.0 | Hello, good. |
| 1:05.0 | What, how? |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Pablo of Coffee Brick Spanish and today me to |
| 1:10.0 | me to bring this mini-lection. |
| 1:13.6 | This week I was preparing a text and I came across the English verb to get. |
| 1:20.6 | And I thought, |
| 1:22.6 | Mother my, how difficult is to get to |
| 1:28.0 | get to the Spanish. |
| 1:30.1 | But why? |
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