"get by" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-get by.ogg Forms: gets by [present, singular, third-person], getting by [participle, present], got by [past], got by [UK, participle, past], gotten by [US, participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> by}} get by (third-person singular simple present gets by, present participle getting by, simple past got by, past participle (UK) got by or (US) gotten by)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: get along, make do, make ends meet Translations (subsist): campar (Catalan), 湊合 (Chinese Mandarin), 凑合 (còuhe) (Chinese Mandarin), vyjít [perfective] (Czech), vystačit [perfective] (Czech), vyžít [perfective] (Czech), rondkomen (Dutch), selviytyä (Finnish), tulla toimeen (Finnish), pysyä leivän syrjässä kiinni (Finnish), tenir le coup (French), s’en sortir (French), se débrouiller (French), auskommen (German), durchkommen (German), zurechtkommen (German), klarkommen (German), pyange (Haitian Creole), megél (Hungarian), sbarcare il lunario (Italian), tirare avanti (Italian), 遣り繰りする (yarikuri suru) (Japanese), 遣り繰り算段する (yarikuri-sandan suru) (Japanese), radzić sobie (Polish), sobreviver (Portuguese), справля́ться (spravljátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), спра́виться (správitʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), subsistir (Spanish), arreglárselas (Spanish), ir tirando (Spanish), defenderse (Spanish), ingeniárselas (Spanish), apañarse (Spanish), klara sig (Swedish), geçinmek (Turkish), yaşamak (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level."
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          "sense": "subsist",
          "word": "campar"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "subsist",
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          "sense": "subsist",
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "code": "ht",
          "lang": "Haitian Creole",
          "sense": "subsist",
          "word": "pyange"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "subsist",
          "word": "megél"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "subsist",
          "word": "sbarcare il lunario"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "roman": "yarikuri suru",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "sense": "subsist",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "subsist",
          "word": "radzić sobie"
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          "sense": "subsist",
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          "roman": "spravljátʹsja",
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "správitʹsja",
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          "word": "спра́виться"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "subsist",
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          "code": "es",
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "subsist",
          "word": "klara sig"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "subsist",
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "subsist",
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      "sense": "subsist",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "subsist",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "subsist",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "auskommen"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "durchkommen"
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "zurechtkommen"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "klarkommen"
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      "code": "ht",
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      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "pyange"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "megél"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "sbarcare il lunario"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "tirare avanti"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "yarikuri suru",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "遣り繰りする"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yarikuri-sandan suru",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "遣り繰り算段する"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "radzić sobie"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "sobreviver"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "spravljátʹsja",
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      "word": "справля́ться"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "správitʹsja",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "спра́виться"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "subsistir"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "arreglárselas"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "ir tirando"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "subsist",
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "ingeniárselas"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "apañarse"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "klara sig"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "geçinmek"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "subsist",
      "word": "yaşamak"
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  "word": "get by"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.