need

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A requirement for something; something needed.
2. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Verb

1. To have an absolute requirement for.
2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
3. To be obliged or required (to do something).
4. To be required; to be necessary.
5. (obsolete) To be necessary (to someone).

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/niːd/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms:
* Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“death”).
* Old English nēod (“desire, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *neud, from Proto-Germanic *neudaz (“wish, urge, desire, longing”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”).

Sinne

" What is it that I still need to know ?" the boy asked .

" I need it to get to the Pyramids ," he said .