You look tired. You ought to rest for an hour or two.
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Ought
//ɔːt//
Synonyms for "ought" (29 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Verb(1 words)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (14)
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Antonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
2 entriesrelated to
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
Translations
101 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀφείλω verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Belarusian
3 entries- паві́нен verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- паві́нна verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- паві́нны verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Danish
4 entries- burde verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- burde verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- burde verb (indicating desirability)
- burde verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Dutch
2 entries- behoren verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- moeten verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Esperanto
1 entries- devi verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Finnish
4 entries- kuulua verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- pitää verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- pitää verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- pitää verb (indicating desirability)
French
4 entries- devoir verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- devoir verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- devoir verb (indicating desirability)
- devoir verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Galician
2 entries- deber verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- ter de verb (indicating duty or obligation)
German
4 entries- sollen verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- sollen verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- sollen verb (indicating desirability)
- sollen verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Greek
3 entries- θα έπρεπε verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- πρέπει verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- όφειλε verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Hungarian
4 entries- bizonyára verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
- hatna verb (indicating desirability)
- hetne verb (indicating desirability)
- jobb lenne verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
Italian
3 entries- dovere verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- dovere verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- dovere verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Khmer
1 entries- គួរតែ verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Latin
2 entries- dēbeō verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- dēbeō verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- dejaś verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Occitan
2 entries- deure verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- dever verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Persian
4 entries- باید verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- باید verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- باید verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
- بهتر بودن verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
Polish
4 entries- powinien verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- powinien verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- powinien verb (indicating desirability)
- powinien verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Portuguese
4 entries- dever verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- dever verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- dever verb (indicating desirability)
- dever verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Russian
4 entries- быть verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- вероя́тно verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
- до́лжен verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- жела́тельно verb (indicating desirability)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- morati verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- morati verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
- trebati verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- trebati verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
Spanish
4 entries- deber verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- deber verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- deber verb (indicating desirability)
- deber verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Swedish
4 entries- borde verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- borde verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- borde verb (indicating desirability)
- borde verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ва́рто verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- ва́рто verb (indicating desirability)
- зобов'я́заний verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- мабу́ть verb (indicating likelihood or probability)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cần verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- phải verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Welsh
3 entries- dylu verb (indicating duty or obligation)
- dylu verb (indicating advisability or prudence)
- dylu verb (indicating desirability)
Yiddish
1 entries- זאָלן verb (indicating duty or obligation)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
I think that you ought to apologize to her.
Source: tatoeba (11374)
You ought to have adopted his plan.
Source: tatoeba (15819)
You ought to ask him for advice.
Source: tatoeba (15832)
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