krijgen.
to get, to receive, to come into possession of (anything ranging from concrete to abstract inputs such as news, gift, punishment, et cetera)
Meaning & usage
to get, to receive, to come into possession of (anything ranging from concrete to abstract inputs such as news, gift, punishment, et cetera)
Ze heeft van haar familie een huwelijkskado gekregen.
Ik weet niet waar hij dat idee heeft gekregen, maar er klopt niets van.
to get, to be presented with
Ik heb geprobeerd mijn televisie aan te sluiten, maar ik krijg alleen sneeuw.
to get, to (manage to) cause to become
Ik krijg mijn auto niet gestart!
Used to form a passive sentence with a ditransitive verb, with the original indirect object becoming the subject of krijgen.
Hij kreeg een prijs uitgereikt.
to catch (a disease), to become ill with
Ik heb een verkoudheid gekregen.
Krijg de tering!
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch crigen, from Old Dutch *crīgan, from Proto-West Germanic *krīgan. Cognate to German kriegen (“to get”).
to wage war, to battle
Where this word comes from
Related to etymology 1. Cognate to German kriegen (“to wage war”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.