diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 0d982e95..524a50be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Changelog
 4.2.2 - unreleased
 ------------------
 
+**Bug fixes:**
+
+- Fixed compatibility with polars 2.0, which removed ``Series.cat.get_categories()``.
+
 **Other changes:**
 
 - Clarified that ``sparse_threshold`` is used to sparsify numerical columns and is not used to densify columns that are already sparse.
diff --git a/src/tabmat/categorical_matrix.py b/src/tabmat/categorical_matrix.py
index 014091a5..86c6ce91 100644
--- a/src/tabmat/categorical_matrix.py
+++ b/src/tabmat/categorical_matrix.py
@@ -243,14 +243,14 @@ def _extract_codes_and_categories_pandas(cat_vec) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarra
 def _extract_codes_and_categories_polars(cat_vec) -> tuple[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]:
     dtype = cat_vec.dtype
     if isinstance(dtype, pl.Enum):
-        categories = cat_vec.cat.get_categories().to_numpy()
+        categories = dtype.categories.to_numpy()
         indices = cat_vec.to_physical().fill_null(-1).to_numpy()
         return indices, categories
 
     if not isinstance(cat_vec.dtype, pl.Categorical):
         cat_vec = cat_vec.cast(pl.Categorical)
-    # as of polars 1.32, `get_categories()` won't yield a useful result as
-    # this is "not per column" anymore.
+    # as of polars 1.32, `Series.cat.get_categories()` won't yield a useful
+    # result as this is "not per column" anymore (and it is removed in 2.0).
     mask = cat_vec.is_null()
     categories = cat_vec.filter(~mask).unique().sort().to_numpy()
     indices = np.nan_to_num(cat_vec.rank("dense").to_numpy() - 1, nan=-1)