different between gotta vs gonna

English

Alternative forms

• gotsta

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???t?/, [?????]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t?/, [?????]
• (Boston, New England) IPA^(key): /???t?/, /???t?/

Contraction

gotta

1. (informal, colloquial) Contraction of have got to (“have to; must”).

   I gotta learn this for my exam.

2. (informal, colloquial) Contraction of got a.
   • 2009, The Black Eyed Peas, I Gotta Feeling

     I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gotta.

See also

• to (particle)
• gotcha
• gtg
• hafta
• got-to

Anagrams

• got at

Finnish

Noun

gotta

1. Abessive singular form of go.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gotta f (plural gotte)

1. gout

Derived terms

• ingottito

Verb

gotta

1. third-person singular present indicative of gottare
2. second-person singular imperative of gottare

Anagrams

• gatto

Portuguese

Noun

gotta f (plural gottas)

1. Obsolete spelling of gota

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) gutta
• (Sursilvan) guota
• (Sutsilvan) guta
• (Puter, Vallader) guotta
• (Puter) aguotta

Etymology

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Noun

gotta f (plural gottas)

1. (carpentry, Surmiran) nail

English

Alternative forms

• gon
• gon'
• gunna
• gonner, gunner

Etymology

Written form of a reduction of going to. The pronunciation of present participles with the sound n rather than ng has a long history (see g-dropping on Wikipedia).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???n.?/, /???n.?/; (unstressed) IPA^(key): /??n.?/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): [?õ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /??n.?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n.?/
• Homophones: gunner (non-rhotic accents)

Contraction

gonna

1. (colloquial, with bare infinitive) Contraction of going to when followed by an infinitive verb: used to express a future action.

   • Never gonna give you up, / Never gonna let you down, / Never gonna run around and desert you. / Never gonna make you cry, / Never gonna say goodbye, / Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

Usage notes

• This spelling, like any nonstandard spelling, risks appearing condescending. Even when going to has the pronunciation that gonna denotes, it is usually spelled <going to>.
• Gonna, like the pronunciation it denotes, only occurs when going to is a modal verb indicating a future tense (something that is bound to happen or is planned), and not for lexical uses of "going to" (i.e. the verb go followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with to). Thus, one says, I’m gonna go now, but *I’m gonna the mall is not observed. (In such contexts, I’m going to the mall is said, with going to pronounced more fully, e.g. IPA^(key): /??o??? ??/, /??o??n?/.) The same is true of other modal verb contractions such as shoulda, woulda, or coulda (e.g. She shoulda come with us but not *She shoulda some patience).

See also

• to (particle)
• coulda
• gotta
• shoulda
• wanna
• woulda
• I'm 'onna
• I'mma

Anagrams

• angon

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin gunna (“leather garment”). Compare English gown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n.na/

Noun

gonna f (plural gonne)

1. skirt

Derived terms

• gonnellino
• minigonna