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How to spell gotten

What it means: To have received or obtained something.

In a sentence: I have gotten a new toy. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double t. Often misspelled as goten or godden.

Same family: get, gets, getting, got, forget. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Gotten” is an older past participle of “get” that came from Middle English and was brought to North America by early English settlers. British English mostly dropped “gotten,” but American and Canadian English kept it, often using it to show a change over time (for example, “has gotten better”).

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix?

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