necessary

Etymology
From, from , from , variant of , probably from or  , from the perfect passive participle of ; see cede.

Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and 🇨🇬, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * 1) Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
 * 2) Unavoidable, inevitable.
 * 3)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
 * 1) Unavoidable, inevitable.
 * 2)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
 * 1) Unavoidable, inevitable.
 * 2)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
 * 1)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
 * 1)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
 * 1)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
 * 1)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
 * 1)  Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ضَرُورِيّ, لَازِم
 * Egyptian Arabic: لازم
 * Hijazi Arabic: ضروري, لازم
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: necesariu
 * Azerbaijani:gərəkli, zəruri, lazımi, lazım olan
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bengali: জরুরি, দরকার, প্রয়োজন, প্রয়োজনীয়
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: necesa
 * Estonian: vajalik, tarvilik
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: საჭირო
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌱𐍃
 * Greek:, ζωτικής σημασίας
 * Ancient: ἀναγκαῖος
 * Haitian Creole: nesesè
 * Hebrew:, הֶכְרֵחִי
 * Hindi: ज़रूरी,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Hunsrik: nedich, nodwennich
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Irish: riachtanach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қажетті, керекті, қажет
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, , керектүү
 * Ladino: menesterozo
 * Lao: ຈຳເປັນ
 * Latin: necesse
 * Latvian: vajadzīgs
 * Lithuanian: reikalingas,
 * Luxembourgish: néideg
 * Macedonian: неопходен, потребен, нужен
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian: шаардлагатай, хэрэгтэй
 * Norman: nécessaithe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, påkrevd
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic: неволꙗ
 * Old English: behoflic, neodþearflic, niedbehæfdlic, niedbehefe, niedbehof, niedbehoflic, niedbeþearf, niedful, niedlic, niedþearf, niedþearflic, oferneod, þearflic
 * Pashto:, لازم,
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਲੋੜੀਂਦਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: deatamach, riatanach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: потребан, нужан
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: nevyhnutný, nutný, potrebný
 * Slovene: potrebno, nujen
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: notny
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kailangan
 * Tajik: лозим,, даркорӣ, воҷиб
 * Tamil: தேவையான
 * Telugu: అవసరమైన, కావాల్సిన
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: མཁོ་བ, ཁ་ཚ་པོ
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: необхі́дний, потрі́бний, немину́чий
 * Urdu: ضروری, لازِمی
 * Uyghur: زۆرۈر,
 * Uzbek:, , , ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: נייטיק


 * Bengali:, খুবই গুরুত্বপূর্ণ


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: nevyhnutný
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1)  A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
 * 2)  Necessity.
 * 1)  Necessity.
 * 1)  Necessity.