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English
Alternative forms
Verb
get the hang of (third-person singular simple present gets the hang of, present participle getting the hang of, simple past got the hang of, past participle (UK) got the hang of or (US) gotten the hang of)
- (colloquial) To begin to understand or manage at a basic level; to learn to handle with some skill.
- Driving feels awkward when you’re new to it, but it’s easy once you get the hang of it.
Translations
to learn to handle with some skill
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 搞定 (zh) (gǎodìng), 上手 (zh) (shàngshǒu), 學會做/学会做
- Dutch: iets doorhebben, iets onder de knie beginnen te krijgen, snappen hoe het werkt
- Esperanto: kutimiĝi al, lertiĝi pri, ekkompreni kiel io funkcias
- Finnish: päästä jyvälle
- French: avoir en main (fr), se débrouiller (fr)
- German: etwas kapieren (de), die Kurve heraushaben, mit etwas umgehen lernen, etwas in den Griff bekommen, etwas in den Griff kriegen (colloquial)
- Hungarian: kapiskál (hu)
- Italian: saperla lunga f
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: få draget på
- Portuguese: pegar o jeito
- Romanian: a se prinde cum se face, a se deprinde cu, a căpăta deprinderea de a
- Russian: наловчиться (ru) pf (nalovčitʹsja)
- Scottish Gaelic: thig suas ri
- Spanish: coger el tranquillo (Spain, colloquial)
- Swedish: få kläm på (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: bir şeyi anlamak (tr), bir (tr) şeyin havasına girmek, bir (tr) şeyin usulünü öğrenmek (tr), kavramak (tr) (figurative)
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