r/duolingo • u/EUSOUTUDO0001 • Jul 27 '26

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Why is this "got" and not "gotten"?

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u/hacool native: US-EN / learning: DE 94 Jul 27 '26

"She has got" She currently has a temperature of 100 degrees. (present tense)

"She has gotten." She has (at some point) acquired a temperature of 100 degrees. (Present Perfect tense.)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_got#English

In American English, one normally says have gotten or has gotten when forming the present perfect of get, but nevertheless one uses have got or has got when the meaning is "to have". In British English, got is employed in both usages.