1030 – Have to → Hafta Speak Naturally in a Minute | Happy English

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Today, let’s talk about a very common reduction in American English: “have to.”
In everyday conversational English, have to usually becomes hafta.

That’s because the V sound in HAVE is pronounced like a weak F sound. And TO is pronounced like TUH
So have to become hafta

Here are some examples:
I have to go now sounds like I hafta go now.
We have to work hard sounds like We hafta work hard
You have to try this sounds like You hafta try this.

Let’s practice. Repeat after me. (I’ll say blue. You say green)
I hafta go.
We hafta work hard.
You hafta try this.

Hafta. Nice and smooth. Hafta. This is very common in American English, and using it will make your English sound more natural and more fluent.

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