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Hi Fandorin You seem to be mixing things up. Angliholic's sentence is not an example of the idiomatic " to have got ", which means basically the same thing as "to have" or "to possess". In that idiom, it is not possible to change the word 'got' to...

That's correct, Abbie. The past participles are 'gotten' and 'forgotten' in AmE. Nevertheless, the idiom "have got" to mean simply "have" takes "got", not "gotten". I have (got) a computer on my desk just now. I am using it to respond to this question. I have gotten/bought a computer this...