to obtain / to get / to gain / to catch (a disease) / proper / suitable / proud / contented / to allow / to permit / ready / finished

= + : Don Quixote found a magic lamp and rubs it inside the elevator's kitchen. A genie appears and grants Don Quixote his wish for black sneakers. Unfortunately they are second hand and so smelly that Don Quixote instantly catches a disease.
de = d + e5
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc

= + : Because Don Quixote is so disappointed by the black sneakers he got from the genie from the magic lamp, he kicks both very mad from the rooftop of the elevator.
to have to / must / ought to / to need to

= + : Because Don Quixote kicked the genie's lamp from the rooftop of the Erechtheion as far as to inside of the Eiffel Tower, the genie demands Don Quixote to apologize. Inside of the Eiffel Tower, Don Quixote kowtows to the genie, who takes back the black sneakers he gave to Don Quixote earlier.

得 character breakdown

variant of 礙|碍[ai4]
to obtain / old variant of 得[de2]

= + : Symbol for "obtain": A genie from a magic lamp who lets you get everything you want to obtain.

= + : Just inside the elevator's kitchen, Don Quixote asks a genie from a magic lamp to fulfil his only wish: a big mug of coffee to start the day. The genie gives him the thumbs up and hands him a big coffee mug.
step with the left foot (Kangxi radical 60) / see also 彳亍[chi4 chu4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol for the step with the left foot: a black sneaker, because black sneakers are popular at least with the leftists I met.

Rosa Luxemburg (亻) just finished her banana (丿) and throws the peel over her shoulder in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). Charlie Chaplin (彳), wearing a black sneaker on his left foot, manages to step on the banana peel with his left foot and fall over even in zero gravity.
to obtain (old variant of 得[de2])

Characters with 得 as component

(onom.) for the sound of horsehoofs

Words with 得

so as not to; so as to avoid
so as not to / so as to avoid
to be worth mentioning
worth it / it pays to
unavoidable / bound to (happen)
(molecular physics) van der Waals force
profit / gain
free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered

Sentences with 得

zhe̅n
shì
sǎo
xìng
de
hěn
na