Get hurt means to be injured: in a fall, an accident or a sports match. It has a second meaning too: to be hurt emotionally, when someone's words or actions cause you pain. I don't want you to get hurt often means I don't want your heart to be broken.
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get hurt (in + accident/fall); hurt + yourself/someone; past: got hurt
- Two players got hurt during the match and had to leave the pitch.
- Be careful with that knife — you could get hurt.
- I don't want to get hurt again, so I'm taking things slowly with him.
What changed
First versionLuckily, nobody got hurted in the accident.
RevisionLuckily, nobody got hurt in the accident.
Hurt is an irregular verb, and all three of its forms are the same: hurt, hurt, hurt. Learners add -ed out of habit, as with regular verbs, but the form hurted doesn't exist. The correction drops the -ed.
Hurt yourself means to injure yourself, usually by accident: I hurt myself on the stairs. Get hurt means to be injured, whoever is to blame: Three people got hurt in the crash. And my knee hurts simply means it's painful; there's no get here.
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My little brother fell off his bike, but luckily he didn't ___.
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get hurt — The brother fell off his bike, and what matters is whether he was injured, so get hurt. Hurt in the sense of injuring someone needs an object: hurt himself. He didn't hurt on its own sounds unfinished here.
Describe a time when someone got hurt but everything turned out fine. Say where it happened.
My friend got hurt on a ski slope in Sochi last winter, but luckily it was only a bruise.
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