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 gotta eat.

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

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") isn't. …

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 dialog from …

Sep 24, 2019 · In such spoken contexts, this got to is typically pronounced as gotta, and in writing it is often transcribed as such (see e.g. here). Thus, in spoken language, the two senses of got to are …

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 [verb] …

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?

Nov 27, 2012 · I'm curious what is the exact meaning/usage of this phrase/idiom? The OED has colloq [uial]. to see a man (about a dog, horse, etc.) and variants: used euphemistically as a vague excuse …