{"id":6692,"date":"2021-03-30T07:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T07:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2021-05-24T08:43:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:43:44","slug":"gotta-gonna-and-wanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elblogdeidiomas.es\/en\/gotta-gonna-and-wanna\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gotta,&#8221; &#8220;Gonna,&#8221; and &#8220;Wanna&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;Gotta,&#8221; &#8220;Gonna,&#8221; and &#8220;Wanna&#8221;<\/h1>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 2rem; background: #F4F4F4;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 0px; color: #fff; background: #FF6868;\">\u00cdNDICE DE CONTENIDOS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#wanna\">Contractions in English: wanna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#gonna\">Gonna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#gotta\">Gotta<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the reasons why it is difficult to understand what you hear in English is that we shorten many words.\u00a0<strong>You probably know how we do formal &#8220;contractions&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0(for example, we reduce &#8220;do not&#8221; to &#8220;don&#8217;t&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>But did you know that we also have informal contractions?\u00a0These &#8220;informal contractions&#8221; are words that we don&#8217;t write a lot, but say a lot of times out loud.\u00a0Informal contractions are one of the many ways we shorten words in spoken English.\u00a0They are called \u201creductions\u201d, or \u201creduced speech\u201d, and it will be difficult to understand what you hear until you learn it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wanna\">Contractions in English: wanna<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s see where\u00a0<em>wanna<\/em>\u00a0comes from\u00a0, how it is built and how it is pronounced<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0It means the same as\u00a0<em>want to<\/em>\u00a0, that is, want.\u00a0For example,\u00a0<em>I want to<\/em>\u00a0is I want.\u00a0<em>Wanna<\/em>\u00a0comes precisely from that construction, from\u00a0<em>want to<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0In fact, it influences the pronunciation that many of us make of\u00a0<em>I want to<\/em>\u00a0, that instead of pronouncing it as such, we directly pronounce it as if it were written\u00a0<em>I wanna<\/em>\u00a0\/ auana \/.<\/p>\n<p>We defend that contractions in English practically have to create themselves, from\u00a0<strong>a deformation produced by speaking fast<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0Here&#8217;s a trick to make it come out perfectly: nothing more, nothing less than saying quickly\u00a0<em>I want to go \/ aewanrugou<\/em>\u00a0\/.\u00a0Applying the trick of pronouncing the letter T as a soft R in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Then it will come out automatically, because when we say it a bit quickly, \/\u00a0<em>aewanrugou<\/em>\u00a0\/ transforms into \/\u00a0<em>aewannagou<\/em>\u00a0\/ naturally.\u00a0There you have the famous\u00a0<em>I wanna<\/em>\u00a0!\u00a0It simply comes out of the deformation of making the T like a smooth R in Spanish, our famous key letter.\u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quiero ir \u2013\u00a0<strong>I wanna go<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Quiero decirte algo \u2013\u00a0<em>I want to tell you something<\/em>, que luego se acabar\u00eda diciendo, dicho r\u00e1pido, como si fuese\u00a0<em>I wanna tell you something<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00bfQu\u00e9 quieres decir? \u2013\u00a0<em>What do you want to say<\/em>?, que acabar\u00eda dici\u00e9ndose, con velocidad, como si fuese\u00a0<em>What do you wanna say<\/em>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, in a colloquial way, it\u00a0<strong>is also accepted that\u00a0<em>wanna<\/em>\u00a0is written\u00a0instead of\u00a0<em>want to<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0, so depending on the context you can do it in one way or another.\u00a0It also appears in songs, such as the famous Spice Girls that says\u00a0<em>If you wanna be my lover<\/em>\u00a0(If you want to be my lover).\u00a0Or on another topic, they say\u00a0<em>I wanna rock<\/em>\u00a0(I want to rock).\u00a0Another example, more:\u00a0<em>You want to be there<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gonna\">Gonna<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Gonna comes from the future\u00a0<em>going to<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0The same thing happens with it as with other contractions of English, such as\u00a0<em>wanna<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0It derives from pronouncing\u00a0<em>going to<\/em>\u00a0when you speak quickly and fluently.\u00a0And it is formed in the same way.\u00a0Thus, for example, it happens in \u00a0<em>I am going to tell you something<\/em>\u00a0(te voy a decir algo).\u00a0\u00a0Also in <em>I am going to do it\u00a0(Voy a hacerlo).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>As with\u00a0<em>wanna<\/em>\u00a0, it comes from pronouncing the T as a soft R in Spanish.\u00a0<\/strong>Thus, the last sentence that we have just seen would say\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m gonna tell you<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0For example,\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m going to buy it<\/em>\u00a0, which would be written\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m going to buy it<\/em>\u00a0, finally it would end up saying and writing\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m gonna buy it<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"gotta\">Gotta<\/h2>\n<p>Of the three contractions in English that we are going to see,\u00a0<em>gotta<\/em>\u00a0is the one that is used the least.\u00a0However, it is quite common to find it in songs and movies.\u00a0<strong>Where does it come from?\u00a0Well, from the expression\u00a0<em>have got to<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0For example, I have to go is\u00a0<em>I have got to go<\/em>\u00a0, and you could also say and write\u00a0<em>I gotta go<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>When speaking, and quickly, <strong>this expression is pronounced so compressed that when saying it the gotta comes out naturally<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0First\u00a0<em>I&#8217;ve got contracts<\/em>\u00a0, and then it joins with to go.\u00a0The result?\u00a0<em>I gotta go \/ aegaragou<\/em>\u00a0\/.\u00a0Again, as in the other two contractions in English, it is the result of pronouncing the T as a soft R in Spanish \/ g\u00e1ra \/.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it is such an informal expression that the\u00a0<em>I have<\/em>\u00a0becomes an\u00a0<em>I&#8217;ve<\/em>\u00a0, and directly, with speech, the see is omitted, and everything becomes I gotta go.\u00a0Let&#8217;s see some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tenemos un problema \u2013\u00a0<em>We\u2019ve got a problem<\/em>, que acabar\u00eda siendo\u00a0<em>we gotta problem\/wegarapr\u00e1blem<\/em>\/.<\/li>\n<li>Tienes que estar bromeando \u2013\u00a0<em>You\u2019ve got to be kidding<\/em>, que se transformar\u00eda en\u00a0<em>You gotta be kidding.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>There are quite a few songs in which the gotta appears<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0For example, a quite famous one from the Black Eyed Peas that says\u00a0<em>I gotta feeling<\/em> (I have the feeling) t<em>hat tonight is gonna be<\/em>\u00a0a good night.\u00a0As you can see, the\u00a0<em>gonna<\/em>\u00a0also appears in it\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>As we have discussed, this expression is rarely 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