The simplest and most common uses are roughly equivalent to "obtener" or "llegar." Like many short words--in English OR Spanish--it has an incredible variety of uses. Here are examples of the most common, simplest use. "We have no bread. I need to get bread." "Claudia Goldin just got the Nobel Prize!" "Who will get the Oscar for 'Best Actor?'" Another use is "to become." "After an hour of exercise, I get tired." "You've slept too long! Get up, get out of bed, get dressed, and get going!" Unfortunately there are more than a dozen phrasal verbs with "get." These just have to be learned as if they were individual words, because they have special meanings of their own.