Gonna and GottaIn informal English conversation, we often use shorter, versions of common word combinations.One of the most common is ‘gonna’ - short for ‘going to’.When we say the words ‘going to’ very quickly, they run together and sound like ‘gonna’.So ‘Are you going to wash the car today?’ becomes:B: ‘Are you gonna wash the car today?’And ‘We are going to go home for dinner.’ becomes:‘We’re gonna go home for dinner.’We also shorten ‘got to’ so it sounds more like ‘gotta.’Here, ‘got to’ means ‘have to’ or ‘must’:So ‘I have got to wash the car today,’ becomes:‘I’ve gotta wash the car today.’And ‘I have got to go home for dinner,’ becomes:‘I’ve gotta go home for dinner.’Flickr CC: Bark