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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

did you got it?

Hi all,

I'd like to know if i can say: 'have you got it' insted of 'did you got it' when someone is talking to me and then ask me that question to see if i [have] understood him.

I suppose this is because in my mother tongue we tend to use the present perfect for recent events.

Please , what's the difference in these cases?.

is it correct to say : have you got it?

and the sentence above ' ... if i have understood him' is correct?

Regards,
  

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Hello, Anon, You can't say "did you g o t it", you need a bare infinitive after "did" (and "do" and "does"), but maybe it was simply a typo . " As to your question, I can't tell you whether it's idiomatic or not, sorry. I guess you can hear it, but to my non-native ears, if sounds more like someone were asking whether the person is in the possession of something.

— Pieanne

  • Hello, Anon, You can't say "did you g o t it", you need a bare infinitive after "did" (and "do" and "does"), but maybe it was simply a typo .
  • " As to your question, I can't tell you whether it's idiomatic or not, sorry.
  • I guess you can hear it, but to my non-native ears, if sounds more like someone were asking whether the person is in the possession of something.
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Hello, Anon,

You can't say "did you got it", you need a bare infinitive after "did" (and "do" and "does"), but maybe it was simply a typo
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Hi guys,

Yes, 'to get it' is an idiomatic way of saying 'to understand it'.

I can ask someone 'Do you get it?', or 'Did you get it?' or 'Have you got it?'. I can even use future, eg I don't think I'm going to get my teacher's explanation'. All tenses are possible in theory.

In practice, we usually use this of the past and present rather than the future, and often shorte
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I have heard people saying "Did you got it" and more often "Did you got my mail" is that wrong?
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AnonymousI have heard people saying "Did you got it" and more often "Did you got my mail" is that wrong?

Yes, it's wrong. You don't use "got" with "did."

Did you get it?
Did you get my email?
Did you get my letter?
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I'd like to add that if you want to ask someone if he understood what you said, "Do/Did you get it?" sounds very patronizing (to me at least) -- as if you're not sure the person is smart enough to understand you. "Do you follow me?" or "Do you see?" are gentler ways of asking the same question.
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Grammar Geek
AnonymousI have heard people saying "Did you got it" and more often "Did you got my mail" is that wrong?
Yes, it's wrong. You don't use "got" with "did."

Did you get it?

Did you get my email?

Did you get my letter?


I remember being surprised in another thread (
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That one particular phrase I would put in the idiom department: What do we got goin' on here!

Because clearly, we don't "have" anything at all. It's a colloquial way of saying "What in tarnation is going on???"

There are other "What do you got" colloquial expressions: Playing poker: "I've got three eights... whatdya got?" Confirming your watch is right: "I think my watch stopped
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I see. Thanks for clarifying that, GG.
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Can you imagine the poker situation as well? Or would it always be "What do you have?" in that context for you?
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Grammar Geek
Can you imagine the poker situation as well? Or would it always be "What do you have?" in that context for you?

In formal BrE it would be "What do you have?".

In conversational BrE it would very often be "What have you got?".

In fast casual speech this would degenerate into "What you got?" or possibly "Whaddya got?"
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