moeten
Meaning
- (intransitive) to be necessary, to be required
- (auxiliary) to have to, must
- (auxiliary) should, be meant to, be supposed to
- (intransitive) to have to go, to need to go, must go
- (informal,intransitive) to need to go to the toilet
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmutə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch moeten, from Old Dutch muotan, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtan, from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną. Cognate with English mote (“may, might”). Unrelated to -moeten in ontmoeten.
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