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herausbekommen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
  • glean verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.

Senses

herausbekommen is used for these senses in English:

  • get (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • glean To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.

get — full definition

  1. verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
  2. verb To become, or to cause someone or something to become, a certain way (often with an adjective).
  3. verb To fetch or bring something.
  4. verb To arrive at or reach a place or state.
  5. verb To understand something.

glean — full definition

  1. verb To gather information or knowledge gradually, often bit by bit and with some effort.
  2. verb To collect leftover crops from a field after the main harvest.

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