hoeven

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) to be necessary
2. (auxiliary) To need to, to have to
3. (transitive) To need
4. (euphemistic,intransitive) to need to urinate or defecate, to need to go

Noun

plural of hoef

Noun

plural of hoeve

Concepts

need

require

want

claim

entail

involve

necessitate

Hyphenated as

hoe‧ven

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɦuvə(n)/

Etymology

Unclear. Cognates are attested much more sparsely, and later, than those of the prefixed form behoeven. It therefore appears that hoeven is a back-formation from behoeven.