Feb 21, 2015 · While watching American TV series, I sometimes see a sentence, "I’ve gotta go," but sometimes an actor says “I gotta go” instead. Is there any difference between those things?

Mar 23, 2012 · Gotta is used in written English to represent the words 'got to' when they are pronounced > informally, with the meaning 'have to' or 'must'. Prices are high and our kids …

I often heard people say the word "gotta". I have read in this web site that gotta is a contraction of "I have got to" and that that phrase means "must", is my understanding correct? Regarding the...

May 9, 2019 · If "gotta" is equivalent to "got to," and "gonna" is equivalent to "going to," adjusting the spelling is allowed, but further alteration for grammar ("have got to" instead of "got to") …

May 3, 2014 · You gotta is entirely "correct" in US colloquial registers, and the spelling is a "standard" symbolization of colloquial speech.

Apr 9, 2024 · The phrase "gotta stick together" is a colloquialism and it is something of a register clash to hear it yoked with the "correct" "We girls". Compare: "It's me" vs "It is I". Here's a bit of …

Apr 26, 2015 · You gotta do what you gotta do. It's there because it's there. Stuff, because stuff. Does this pattern of expression have a name? Existential assertion, maybe?

Apr 21, 2018 · gotta translates as: have got to or have to, the two ways to say have in English and where to have to or have got to means be obliged to do something. ain't gotta: do not have to …

Wikipedia Gonna, gotta and wanna are not contractions. Contractions are shortenings like aren’t and can’t. The missing letters have been replaced by an apostrophe, and the original words …

The phrase "got to be joking" (not included in the above Ngram graph), by the way, seems to be less common than any of the four phrases in this Ngram graph—between half and two-thirds …