how to say...

please help me.

how to say "get a toothache" in Present Perfect Tense?

thanks for your help.

[Snowcake]

I have had toothache.

[Andyrodiks]

thank you , Snowcake,but you gave present perfect of have a toothache not get a toothache.
what is present perfect of get a toothache?Like I am ok and just now I get a toothache and I say then .....?

[heidita]

I would use the form gotten here to be on the save side:

I have gotten a toothache.

This is rather unusual though.

[anreak]

I've got a toothache....but it's not present perfect. It uses the words "I've got a" which means "I have a". I think that heidita's sentence is grammatically correct but it's not used in this case.

NOT A TEACHER.

[Andyrodiks]

Originally Posted by heidita

I would use the form gotten here to be on the save side:

I have gotten a toothache.

This is rather unusual though.

thank you but I would not like to use an unusual phrase.
I have got a toothache=is it present perfect of "get a toothache"?, please?
dictionary says that get=got in present perfect , is that right?

[anreak]

It's not.

take a look at this topic, please.

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...ve-gotten.html

[heidita]

Originally Posted by Andyrodiks

thank you but I would not like to use an unusual phrase.
I have got a toothache=is it present perfect of "get a toothache"?, please?
dictionary says that get=got in present perfect , is that right?

Hi Andy, I only said it was unusual because in BE it is usual to use "got" as a participle of get.

Really, in a regular conjugation:

I get a toothache.

I have got a toothache.

I got a toothache.

So the second sentence would normally be interpreted as "I have a toothache" as have got is the same as have. But it would certainly be grammatically correct.

[Snowcake]

Oh, sorry. Now it's clear to me what you problem is. "have got"
That's why I've chosen "have toothache".

Sorry, you've got me there.


Snowcake

[Andyrodiks]

Originally Posted by heidita

Hi Andy, I only said it was unusual because in BE it is usual to use "got" as a participle of get.

Really, in a regular conjugation:

I get a toothache.

I have got a toothache.

I got a toothache.

So the second sentence would normally be interpreted as "I have a toothache" as have got is the same as have. But it would certainly be grammatically correct.

hi Heidita,
so 1.I have got a toothache=I have gotten a toothache
2.I have got a toothache=I have a toothache
is all that right? if so, it is abit crazy, how to figure out if a speaker means 1 or 2? How come in a language one sentence has many completely different meanings?
ups.....