ought

Etymology 1
From, , , , from , first and third person singular past tense of , equivalent to.

Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  Indicating duty or obligation.
 * 2)  Indicating advisability or prudence.
 * 3)  Indicating desirability.
 * 4)  Indicating likelihood or probability.
 * 1)  Indicating desirability.
 * 2)  Indicating likelihood or probability.
 * 1)  Indicating likelihood or probability.

Usage notes

 * Ought is an auxiliary verb; it takes a following verb as its complement. This following verb may appear either as a full infinitive (such as “to go”) or a bare infinitive (such as simple “go”), depending on region and speaker; the same range of meanings is possible in either case. Additionally, it's possible for ought not to take any complement, in which case a verb complement is implied, as in, “You really ought to [do so].”
 * The negative of ought is either ought not (to) or oughtn't (to) (yet oughtn't've: oughtn't *(to) have)

Synonyms

 * (In all senses)

Translations

 * Belarusian: паві́нен, паві́нна, паві́нны
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: θα έπρεπε, όφειλε
 * Ancient Greek: ὀφείλω
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Khmer: គួរតែ
 * Latin:, Use gerundive
 * Occitan: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: dejaś
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: пови́нен, зобов'я́заний, му́сить
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: זאָלן


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, jobb lenne, érdemes lenne
 * Italian:
 * Latin:, Use gerundive
 * Persian: بهتر بودن,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: in subjunctive, ;  in subjunctive, +  or 
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: слід,
 * Welsh:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, kéne, -hatna, -hetne
 * Latin: Use gerundive
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: in subjunctive, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: слід,
 * Welsh:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French: (in conditional)
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: мабу́ть, пе́вно

Pronoun

 * 1) ; anything

Adverb

 * 1) ; at all, to any degree.

Noun

 * 1) A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case.

Noun

 * 1) ; cipher, zero, nought.

Etymology
From, , shortening of ,.

Pronoun

 * 1) anything, everything
 * 2) something