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Feb 21, 2015while 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, 2012gotta is used in written english to represent the words 'got to' when they are pronounced > informally, with the meaning 'have to' or 'must'.

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? Apr 26, 2015you gotta do what you gotta do.

It's there because it's there. May 3, 2014you gotta is entirely "correct" in us colloquial registers, and the spelling is a "standard" symbolization of colloquial speech. Sep 24, 2019in such spoken contexts, this got to is typically pronounced as gotta, and in writing it is often transcribed as such (see e.g.

Thus, in spoken language, the two senses of got. May 9, 2019if "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"). 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.

Wikipedia gonna, gotta and wanna are not contractions. The missing letters have been replaced by an apostrophe, and the original words. Apr 9, 2024the phrase "gotta stick together" is a colloquialism and it is something of a register clash to hear it yoked with the "correct" "we girls".