You can say:

I have a question.
I have got a question.
I've got a question.

The "got" here is part of "have got", which is an alternative to "have" (for possession) used in the UK. It is not used as much in the US.

"I got a question" (missing out "have") is used in very informal slang in some forms of BE. I don't think it's quite as informal in the US, but it is still informal there too AFAIK.

I have an answer,I have a question is correct. It is true that 'I have a question' is correct. You don't say 'I have a question' is true.
got is past tense of the verb to get
got(BE)gotten(AE)is the past participle,so you can say'I have got/gotten a question or I have a question,but not I got a question.
However, in a test paper in school, you may get a question on any subject. In that case you could say I got a question on history.

As I understand it, "I have gotten a question" is really the past perfect form of "to get" and means "I have received a question". In "I've got a question", though, "I've got" is not really the present perfect of the verb "to get" any more, as it does not mean "I have received a question", it means "I have a question".

Here is some more information about "have got": http://www.oup.com/images/elt/oald7/un104.gif

(oops, sorry, that should be "present perfect" in the first sentence of no. 3)

I think the occasions where I disagree with CM2DD are practically non-existent, but here I do disagree
The verb "to get" in BE English is formed "get, got, got"
The Oxford Dictionary says: get
• verb (getting; past got; past part. got, N. Amer. or archaic gotten)
So, I have got a question can mean both I have a question and I have received a question

Don't you say "I got a question" in a sense that implies that recently a question came up in your mind aroused by the content and you don't say "I have a question" because you don't HAVE it but GET it from something you don't understand?

IMO the difference would be:
I got a question means at some point in the time I received a question, e.g. I got a question yesterday - e.g. it was sent to me in the post, I received it yesterday.
I have got a question - arising from the discussion we have had (yesterday, this morning, just now) (no time given)
I have a question - same explanation as I have got a question.

@confused - Sorry, I didn't mean to say that "I've got" never means "I have received". I just meant that when you say "I've got a question", it normally means "I have a question", where the "got" is not really the present perfect of "get" any more. I was comparing this with "I've gotten a question", which is only used as the present perfect form of "get" (receive).

Of course, you can also say "I've got a question" as in "I've received a question", but I can only think of very few examples, such as a radio presenter saying "I've just got a question from a listener in Weymouth who wants to know ..." - which I don't think is what "actually" was asking about.

@actually - In Britain we normally say "I've got a question" with exactly the same meaning as "I have a question".

@CM2DD
Sorry, I agree with everything you say. However I understood that you were advocating use of "I have gotten" as correct usage of the present perfect, which (sorry everyone from over the pond) sounds awful to my BE ears :o)

I hope actually hasn't gott(en) too confused :-)

I just mentioned the difference between "got" and "gotten" in response to comment no. 2.

Well, in case it has, let me see if I can review.


Two choices are correct in both AE and BE:

I have a question. (standard, also more common in AE)
I've got a question. (colloquial, also more common in BE)

This is just a special use of 'get.' 'I've got' is a second option to express the idea 'I have.'

However, you can always say 'I have' and it will be perfectly correct: I have two brothers, I have a bicycle, I have a question. If German textbooks for beginners give the impression that 'I've got' is the only choice, they are not good textbooks.

It's true that 'I've got' comes from 'I have got,' but the contraction 'I've' is much more common than 'I have.' English speakers nearly always use contractions in speech, and 'I've got' is something you say, not something you write.

As CM2DD says, leaving out the word have or the contraction 've is possible, but it's a lower level of diction:

I got a question. (nonstandard, very casual or less educated)

You can say that with your friends, but it would be incorrect at school or at the office.



As for 'gotten,' it exists only in AE, but in AE it's perfectly correct and indeed preferable when 'get' is a true verb, that is, when it means 'become' or 'receive':

BE:
I've just got a call from a listener.
I hope this hasn't got too confused.

AE:
I've just gotten a call from a listener.
I just got a call from a listener.
I hope this hasn't gotten too confused.

Okay, thanks for your help. But once we got a paper in school with some typical English mistakes and there was written "I have a question" and my English teacher, who is a native American, said it would be wrong and the correct sentence would be "I got a question". (if I remember right). Nevertheless everyone kept saying "I have" instead of got and nobody complained. I think I'll maybe ask her again, but thanks anyway :)

Quite simply, a British person would NEVER say - 'I got a question'. Ever. Whereas an American could quite easily say 'I have a question'. A Briton would say 'I've got a question', but this suggests spontaneity and informality. And the idea that one 'gets', ie 'receives' a question is never actually expressed with 'get'. For example, you're reading a text, or listening to a speech, and you want to ask something, then you'd say 'Something's just occured to me....why/when/what/where/which/how?' Or, 'I've just thought....why/when/what/where/which/how?'!