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mimi2

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Please explain the meaning of the following sentence:

"Hurry up! We're got to go in ten minutes."

Thanks.
Get ready quickly. We must leave ten minutes from now.
Each of these sentences has almost the same meaning.

We've got to go in ten minutes = We have got to go in 10 minutes.
We have to go in ten minutes.
We must go in ten minutes.

We've got to go is a little stronger than we have to go
Brioche said:
Each of these sentences has almost the same meaning.

We've got to go in ten minutes = We have got to go in 10 minutes.
We have to go in ten minutes.
We must go in ten minutes.

We've got to go is a little stronger than we have to go

It's so glad to learn this.👁 Smile :)

I've always confused 'I have to' with 'I've got to'. From the movies and the books, my guess is that they both have the same meanings, but 'I've got to' seems to be more colloquial.
I think the use of got is very typical of British English and its non-use typical of American English (although perhaps more so in some parts of the States than others).

So hurry up! We've got to go in ten minutes is BrE and hurry up! We have to go in ten minutes is AmE.
Thank all of you for your kind help.
It's worth noting, perhaps, that "got to" is not universal in BE.
We have to go in ten minutes, is normal in many parts of the UK.
We've got to go ... sounds strange to me.

Of course, the question was well-answered by post #3👁 Big Grin :D
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