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Question about English (US)
Why was “got” used in this sentence?
“Hey, I heard that you have a birthday coming up. Do you got any plans?”
Why was “got” used in this sentence?
“Hey, I heard that you have a birthday coming up. Do you got any plans?”
“Hey, I heard that you have a birthday coming up. Do you got any plans?”
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- English (US)
It’s just a very informal usage (and one that particularly irks me).
Do you got any plans = Do you have any plans
But if the speaker wanted to use “got”, I think it would’ve been more natural to cut out “do you” altogether.
Hey, I heard that you have a birthday coming up. Got any plans?
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- English (US)
“To get” means “to have”. This is slang and usually consisted child-like speech.
A child might yell when entering the play ground, “I got the ball.”
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
@bsloan7 @NerdChieftain Thank you! Can I use “get” in that example sentence though? Would this sound natural?
“Do you get any plans?”
“Do you get any plans?”
- English (US)
@studiousboy No, that would be incorrect.
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- English (US)
@studiousboy got is correct, because it is past tense of “get.”
So before now, you made plans. You already got the plans.
I think this is a good example why it is better to just say, “Do you already have plans?” This is present tense and not confusing.
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
@bsloan7 Why? The “do” is the present simple; “get” agrees with it. “Got” looks like it’s grammatically incorrect, “get” looks like it’s correct.
- Simplified Chinese (China)
@NerdChieftain Thank you, yes, “got” is the past simple tense. So “do you already have plans” sounds more natural to you, right?
- English (US)
@studiousboy The problem is that you’re trying to apply official/standard grammar rules to informal language. But slang and casual language don’t always work that way. Only “got” is used to mean “have” informally. “Get” is not.
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- English (US)
- Simplified Chinese (China)
@bsloan7 Ok, so even if I change “do” to “did” and keeps the sentence to the past simple, it’s still incorrect, right? Because “get” can’t mean “have”.
Did you get any plans?
Did you get any plans?
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- English (US)
This usage of get is a pet peeve of mine
“Do you got any plans?” to me sounds really sloppy but people do say it 😢
I agree with @bsloan7 that if someone says “Got any plans?” it’s fine (it’s short “Have you got any plans?” )
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- French (France)
@studiousboy
Because "do you got" is slang for "have you got," which itself is a less formal version of "do you have."
I've got some plans for the weekend = I got some plans for the weekend.
Have you got any plans for the weekend? = Do you got any plans for the weekend?
I haven't got any plans for the weekend = I don't got any plans for the weekend.
Haven't you got any plans at all? Don't you got any plans at all?
I've got no plans at all = I got no plans at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-rKi_Rcvw
- English (US)
@studiousboy It sounds like a nonstandard dialect, native but not formally correct. I’d guess it’s American. It’s not something I’d say in my dialect, so I can’t give exact rules, but some people do replace ‘have’ with ‘got’ in this kind of context. I could say “Got anything for me?” as an informal version of “Do you have anything for me?” (I’d be asking if they have new products I’d like, if they found information I asked them to research, if any packages have arrived for me, etc., not whether they bought me a present.)
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