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to get some coffee

to get some coffee

100 1.0
To buy coffee to drink with someone casually
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : tomar un café
  • Let's go get some coffee after work to relax for a bit.
  • go get some coffee
  • let's get some coffee
  • want to get some coffee

Even now I will check out and go and get some coffee and have a good day and not have a meltdown because meltdowns are for losers.

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Examples

  • "Let's walk down and get some coffee," Deck says.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I will get some coffee for you.

    The inbreaker (1974)

  • We we're going to get some coffee and some some breakfast and stuff.

    Danny Jones

  • So we just got some coffee and we made it here with Christian guys.

  • Check it out guys all right, so we're just you know, getting some coffee and look at all these cool cars.

  • Let me just get some coffee here.

    Bundy Manor (2022)

  • Could we get some coffee over here, today?

    The Wrath of Becky (2023)

  • Can we go out and get some coffee?

    Fiction book (1994)

  • I'm gonna get some coffee.

    October Baby (2011)

  • "You want to get some coffee or something?" he asked as he glanced at his watch.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

to grab coffee
vsto get some coffee
  • Informal
28 1.6

Quickly buy a cup of coffee, often to meet someone briefly

is more about casually obtaining and social drinking than quick haste
to grab a coffee
vsto get some coffee
  • Informal
7 2.4

To buy a cup of coffee quickly as a short break

is used for casually obtaining and drinking together in social settings

How Social

coffee-and-chat
  • Informal
2.5
to go out for
111 1.6
to get some coffee
100 1.0
to grab a coffee
  • Informal
7 2.4

Surface Forms

get some coffee infinitive
got some coffee past
got some coffee past participle
getting some coffee present participle
gets some coffee third person singular

Morphology

get + some + coffee

The meaning 'to obtain or buy (and often drink) coffee' is directly and compositionally built from 'get' (obtain), 'some' (an unspecified amount), and 'coffee' (the beverage). This is a simple verb + object construction common across languages and only adds pragmatic nuance (e.g. a social break), so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily understand it.

Etymology

Get some coffee comes from the simple picture of going out to get (buy) coffee, where people meet in a café to drink and talk. So, saying get some coffee often means 'have a short, casual meeting or chat'.