Timeline for “They got nice cars” correct or not?
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| Jan 28 at 17:08 | comment | added | Lambie | Oh, yes, ask a question and then delete a profile. Why bother? I don't get it. | |
| Jan 26 at 20:15 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 26 at 20:01 | comment | added | Lambie | Got can mean: bought, purchased, acquired and received to name a few. However, I repeat the presence of "yeah" points to the non-standard got for have/have got. It is idiomatic but non-standard and mostly unschooled. It is not AAVE per se. It's any American uneducated dialect. | |
| Jan 26 at 19:48 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | If meant for 'Yes, some of them always have the nicest cars', it's quite possibly AAVE. | |
| Jan 26 at 19:46 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jan 26 at 18:39 | comment | added | TimR | That sentence is perfectly idiomatic but very colloquial American English. One step in the direction of formality, but still colloquial, would be They've got nice cars and yet another step towards formal, but still in neutral register, would be They have nice cars. It is also possible to understand the sentence as a statement about the past, where "got" means "acquired". | |
| Jan 26 at 17:38 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | Got is correct here if it is used in the sense of acquired. | |
| Jan 26 at 17:27 | comment | added | Lambie | This will be closed since right/wrong answers are not usually acceptable. But bear this in mind: English has two forms for have in the present simple: have and have got. Just using "got" is either non-standard for have or can mean "buy". But given the "Yeah", this is most likely non-standard for have got or have. Please go read the Help section. Top right under the three-bars icon. | |
| Jan 26 at 16:40 | history | asked | Andrea Roșioru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |