kriegen

Etymology
From. Verbalisation of. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to get
 * 2)  to catch, to come down with
 * 3)  to get (something to a desired state)
 * 4)   to get
 * 5)  to war
 * 1)   to get
 * 2)  to war
 * 1)  to war
 * 1)  to war
 * 1)  to war

Usage notes

 * Kriegen is relatively infrequent in the formal standard language, which prefers or  instead. However, kriegen is very frequent in colloquial German, where the verb often retains the vowel shortening that is occurring in local dialects in the second and third person singular of verbs. Thus, (du)  is often pronounced, (er)  may be . These pronunciations are not used for the rare sense “to war”.

Etymology
From. Verbalisation of. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to get
 * 2) to catch
 * 3) to come down with