No one would ever say "have got", it's the sort of redundancy that naturally gets distilled down to the minimum required in everyday language. I imagine this s

No one would ever say "have got", it's the sort of redundancy that naturally gets distilled down to the minimum required in everyday language. I imagine this sort of focus on technically correct but functionally useless things is pretty common when studying languages. I took a few years of German in school, and literally 25% of our time was spent memorizing the various forms of der and matching nouns to them. I haven't been to Germany, but my understanding is that you won't get laughed out of too many rooms if you use die when you should have used den. I didn't keep up with the language, and I can barely understand even basic German at this point. I do still remember my der/ein charts though. I'm not really convinced that was the best use of my time.