vajadzēt

Etymology
Borrowed from ; cf. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. In 16th-18th century texts, the word (in the older form vaijaga) is used as an adjective, often accompanied by the copula (vaijaga ir... “it is necessary”), following the original 🇨🇬 pattern. From the 17th century on, it began occurring also by itself in a dative construction (man vajag... “I need”), from which it was reinterpreted as a verb, so that further forms — an infinitive, a past tense , a future tense , a conditional form , etc. — were created by analogy (compare , third person present , third person past , etc.). Some participial forms, however, are lacking, and others are barely attested.

Verb

 * 1) to be necessary, to be needed, to be desired
 * 2)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something
 * 1)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something
 * 1)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something
 * 1)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something
 * 1)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something
 * 1)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something
 * 1)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something
 * 1)  must, should expressing confidence about the existence or occurrence of something

Usage notes
The arguments of this verb are: a dative, for the person to whom something is necessary, and an accusative or genitive, for the thing that is necessary; e.g.:   or    “I(dat.) need money(acc. or gen.).” The accusative has more widespread use, though the genitive is not infrequent, often with a partitive sense (“I need some money”).