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Is there any important difference between 'I don't have a cat' and 'I have not a cat?'
June 22, 2015
"I have not a cat" isn't something a native English speaker would say. They mean the same thing, but definitely use "I don't have a cat."
February 21, 2016
JuergenZirak
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Well, but is there any difference in meaning to "I do not have a cat"?
October 7, 2017
Like Irish, we have a LOT of dialects and idioms. I think neither Duo, nor many of the English speakers account for that.
August 14, 2018
I tried saying "a cat is not at me" which would be the literal translation but was marked wrong
June 2, 2019
It's marked wrong because when an Irish speakers says Níl cat agam they mean *I don't have a cat", they don't mean "a cat is not at me".
June 2, 2019
