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gotten there

gotten there is the past participle of get there.

Meaning of get there

Verb

get there (third-person singular simple present gets there, present participle getting there, simple past got there, past participle (UK) got there or (US) gotten there)

  1. To arrive at a destination.
    • What time are we going to get there?
  2. (idiomatic) To succeed after a lengthy attempt.
    • He's having trouble completing the sudoku puzzle, but he'll get there eventually.

Questions about gotten there

What is gotten there the past participle of?
Gotten there is the past participle of get there.

Words near gotten there in the dictionary

  1. gotten the wall
  2. gotten the wind up
  3. gotten the word out
  4. gotten the worst of it
  5. gotten the wrong idea
  6. gotten there
  7. gotten through
  8. gotten through one's head
  9. gotten through one's thick skull
  10. gotten to
  11. gotten to first base

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gotten there (page history and authors); get there (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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