Casual Merged Words
"Lemme" = let me: "Lemme try." "Dunno" = don't know / I don't know: "Dunno, maybe?" "Gimme" = give me: "Gimme a sec." "Gotcha" = I got you / I understand / got you (caught): "Gotcha, understood." These are extremely informal and mainly appear in casual speech and informal written media like social media and text messages.
"Lemme" = let me: "Lemme try." "Dunno" = don't know / I don't know: "Dunno, maybe?" "Gimme" = give me: "Gimme a sec." "Gotcha" = I got you / I understand / got you (caught): "Gotcha, understood." These are extremely informal and mainly appear in casual speech and informal written media like social media and text messages.
Practice
"Dunno" is a casual reduction of ___.
"a break — I need five minutes." (= give me)
Match the reduction to its meaning — put the sentence in order: