Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 9, 2003, 1:31 |
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> > I have done it.
> > I have it.
>What about the use of 'have' in the sense of 'need':
> I have to go to the store.
>
>I don't know the correct way to indicate the sound of
>this, but it seems that it is different than the two
>examples above (at least to me, and the way I have
>heard others use it).
I intentionally replaced _have_ meaning "need" with _must_ in my personal
usage decades ago because I thought it too confusing, but thinking back on
it, for me that form was [h{f].
_I have to go_
[Ai:\ h{f t_u Go]
Interrestingly, my parents would have said
_I've got to go_
[A:v GA:d.d@ Gou]
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