devoir mais informel?

[placid tree]

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devoir mais informel?

[ionic arrow]

gotta, c'est surtout une norme de prononciation familière et on pourrait dire que ça existe aussi en français

il faut -> y faut -> faut
je dois -> j'dois

c'est pas tout à fait pareil, mais c'est similaire

[frosty cobalt]

"gotta" isn't really a "word", it's more of a deliberate spelling of the phrase "got to" to reflect the way it's pronounced in fast, informal speech. Same thing with wanna - want to, or gonna - going to.

With that in mind, I can't think of direct equivalents, but there are somewhat similar situations.

For example, the verb "falloir" normally requires the third person pronoun "il", but it's very often dropped in spoken informal speech. So in informal written French meant to emulate speech, it's dropped too.

• Faudrait qu'on y aille (instead of "il faudrait qu'on y aille")

[scenic whale]

Gotta go = faut qu'j'y aille / j'dois y aller

[quartz eagle]

«tout à fait pareil»?

[ionic arrow]

C'est pas exactement la même chose

[quartz eagle]

je l'ai compris mais «tout à fait pareil», c'est "exactly the same" when considered in isolation from the previous sentence?