must

Etymology 1
From "must", literally, "had to", the past tense of, from, 1st & 3rd person singular past tense of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at mote.

Verb

 * 1)  To do as a requirement;.
 * 2)  To do with certainty;.
 * 1)  To do with certainty;.
 * 1)  To do with certainty;.
 * 1)  To do with certainty;.

Usage notes

 * Compare with weaker auxiliary verb, indicating mere intent for the predicate’s execution; and stronger auxiliary verb , indicating that the negative consequence will be unusually severe.
 * Compare with weaker auxiliary verb, indicating a strong probability of the predicate’s execution.
 * The past tense of “must” is also “must”. In main clauses, this use of the past tense is almost always literary (see King James Bible, Leiber, and Alcott quotations at Citations:must). In subordinate clauses, it is more common: He knew what he must do. Otherwise, the past sense is usually conveyed by . It is possible to use was bound to for the past also. For this reason, and  are also used as alternatives to  in the present and future.
 * The principal verb, if easily supplied (especially go), may be omitted. In modern usage this is mainly literary (see Housman and Tolkien quotations at Citations:must).
 * is unusual in its negation: still expresses a definite certainty or requirement.  and, on the other hand, are negated in the usual manner. Compare:
 * You must not read that book. (It is necessary that you not read that book.)
 * You need not read that book. / You do not have to read that book. (It is not necessary that you read that book.)


 * The second-person singular (thou being the subject) no longer adds (as it did in Old English).

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan: 𐔱𐔴𐕘𐔰
 * Arabic: (present tense: يَجِب), يَتَحَتَّم, يَلْزَم, لَا بُدَّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: لازم
 * Levantine Arabic: لَازِم
 * Armenian: պետք է
 * Bashkir: тейеш
 * Belarusian: му́сіць, паві́нен, паві́нна, паві́нны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: dovar
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: dovê
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: უნდა
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: müese
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐌻𐌰𐌽, 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌱𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: dwe
 * Hindi:, , (pattern: dative + verb + ), होगा
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: caithfidh, is éigean, ní foláir, bí ar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ならない (conditional negative form + "naranai"), いけない (conditional negative form + "ikenai"), (conditional negative form + "dame da"),  ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: -어야 하다, -어야 되다
 * Ladin: dovei
 * Lao: ຕ້ອງ
 * Latin:, debere, futurus sum,  servandus sum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: privalo
 * Lü: ᦏᦱᧉ, ᦎᦸᧂᧉ
 * Macedonian: мо́ра
 * Malay: mesti
 * Mongolian: ёстой
 * Neapolitan: avé a
 * North Frisian: mötj,  skel, mut
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: sċulan
 * Old Saxon: motan
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: stuair, stuer, stueir, stuvair
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Samoan: lava
 * Scots: maun
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мо́рати
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: musieť
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: dejaś, musaś
 * Upper Sorbian: dyrbjeć,
 * Spanish:, tener que
 * Sranan Tongo: musu
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dapat
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Tongan: pau
 * Turkish:, , lazım olmak, gerek olmak
 * Ukrainian:, пови́нний, пови́нен
 * Urdu: چاہئے, پڑنا, (pattern: dative + verb + ہونا (hōnā)), ہو گا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: rhaid i + pronoun or noun,
 * West Frisian: moatte
 * Yiddish: מוזן
 * Yup'ik: -naurte


 * Arabic: لَابُدَّ
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, , , , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Korean: -겠-, -을 것이다
 * Latin: certē
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: deber de
 * Welsh: rhaid  + pronoun or noun

Noun

 * 1) Something that is mandatory or required.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: krav,
 * Plautdietsch: Muss
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , olmazsa olmaz, , ,

Etymology 2
From, from and , , both from.

Noun

 * 1) The property of being stale or musty.
 * 2) Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
 * 3)  Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَصِير
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: mustu
 * Asturian:
 * Basque: muztio
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mosto
 * Finnish: puristemehu
 * French: or
 * Friulian: most
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γλεῦκος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: mustum
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: most
 * Old Tupi: kaûĩe'ẽ, kaûĩpyasu
 * Persian: پوراب
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мошт
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: mošt
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian:
 * Welsh: gwin newydd, mwst

Verb

 * 1)  To make musty.
 * 2)  To become musty.

Etymology 3
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) * 1936, George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant, an essay in the magazine New Writing:
 * It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone ‘must’.
 * It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone ‘must’.

Etymology
From, from , from the past tense of , whence native.

Noun

 * 1) a  necessity, prerequisite

Etymology
From. Cognate with, and. Possibly from, compare.

Adjective

 * 1) black color
 * 2) Dark, without light, illumination (and poorly visible).
 * 3) Without snow.
 * 4) Having dark skin.
 * 5) Dirty, unclean, full of garbage and/or grime.
 * 6) Not requiring special skills, making something or someone dirty.
 * 7) Grim, dreary, hopeless, without any (good) solution.
 * 8) Illegal, unofficial, disgraceful.
 * 1) Dirty, unclean, full of garbage and/or grime.
 * 2) Not requiring special skills, making something or someone dirty.
 * 3) Grim, dreary, hopeless, without any (good) solution.
 * 4) Illegal, unofficial, disgraceful.
 * 1) Grim, dreary, hopeless, without any (good) solution.
 * 2) Illegal, unofficial, disgraceful.
 * 1) Illegal, unofficial, disgraceful.
 * 1) Illegal, unofficial, disgraceful.

Noun

 * 1) The color black.
 * 2) Something colored in black.
 * 3) A person having dark skin.
 * 1) A person having dark skin.
 * 1) A person having dark skin.

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) must something mandatory or required

Declension

 * Not inflected.

Etymology 2
A variant of <.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  that which is compulsory; an obligation; duty;
 * 2)  must-have item that one must own
 * 1)  must-have item that one must own
 * 1)  must-have item that one must own

Noun

 * 1)  sweet fresh grape juice that has not fermented yet

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) black

Etymology
From and, , both from.

Noun

 * 1)  wine that is not fully fermented
 * 2)  fruit juice

Etymology
, from,.

Noun

 * 1) unfermented wine; grape or other fruit juice
 * 2)  (of grapes)

Etymology
From, , from.

Noun

 * 1)  (drink made from) fruit or berry juice (that has been prevented from fermenting)
 * 2) a kind of soft drink, more commonly known as julmust

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) black

Noun

 * 1) black

Noun

 * 1)  new wine; sweet cider

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) black colour