You should sleep.
Source: tatoeba (1311)
Should
//ʃəd//
Synonyms for "should" (25 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
Related word relations
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
33 entriesI should cocoI should cocoaas who should saychildren should be seen and not heardhe who sups with the devil should have a long spoonhow should I knowmight shouldno one should be judge in his own caseno one should be judge in his own causeone should never meet one's heroesor should I saypeople that live in glass houses should not throw stonespeople that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stonespeople who live in glass houses should not throw stonespeople who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stonesproverbs should be sold in pairs
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etymologically related_to
2 entriesform of
1 entrieshas a
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
135 translations across 48 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀφείλω verb (expressing obligation)
Arabic
3 entries- مِنْ اَلْمَفْرُوض أَنْ verb (expressing obligation)
- مِنْ اَلْمُفْتَرَض أَنْ verb (expressing obligation)
- يَنْبَغِي أَنْ verb (expressing obligation)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- gərək verb (expressing obligation)
- malı verb (expressing obligation)
- məli verb (expressing obligation)
Belarusian
3 entries- паві́нен verb (expressing obligation)
- паві́нна verb (expressing obligation)
- паві́нны verb (expressing obligation)
Bengali
4 entries- উচিত verb (expressing opinion)
- উচিত verb (expressing likelihood)
- কথা verb (expressing obligation)
- কথা verb (expressing likelihood)
Catalan
3 entries- deure verb (expressing obligation)
- haver de verb (expressing obligation)
- tenir de verb (expressing obligation)
Chinese
2 entries- 應該 /应该 verb (expressing obligation)
- 著 verb (expressing obligation)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 應該 /应该 verb (expressing obligation)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 倘若 verb (if; in case of)
- 如果 verb (if; in case of)
- 應當 /应当 verb (expressing obligation)
- 應該 /应该 verb (expressing obligation)
Cornish
4 entries- y kodh dhe verb (expressing obligation)
- y tal dhe verb (expressing opinion)
- y talvia dhe verb (expressing opinion)
- y tegoodh dhe verb (expressing obligation)
Czech
1 entries- měl by verb (expressing obligation)
Danish
4 entries- burde verb (expressing obligation)
- skulle verb (expressing obligation)
- skulle verb (expressing likelihood)
- skulle verb (if; in case of)
Dutch
3 entries- mochten verb (if; in case of)
- moeten verb (expressing obligation)
- zou moeten verb (expressing obligation)
Esperanto
1 entries- devi verb (expressing obligation)
Finnish
2 entries- pitäisi verb (expressing obligation)
- pitäisi verb (expressing likelihood)
French
3 entries- Conditional form of devoir verb (expressing obligation)
- Conditional form of devoir verb (expressing opinion)
- si verb (if; in case of)
German
4 entries- dürfen verb (expressing likelihood)
- müsste verb (expressing obligation)
- sollen verb (expressing obligation)
- sollte verb (expressing obligation)
Hebrew
2 entries- כְּדַאי לְ־ verb (expressing opinion)
- צָרִיךְ verb (expressing obligation)
Hindi
1 entries- चाहिए verb (expressing obligation)
Hungarian
4 entries- alighanem verb (expressing likelihood)
- bizonyára verb (expressing likelihood)
- esetleg verb (as a variant of the present subjunctive)
- feltehetőleg verb (expressing likelihood)
Icelandic
1 entries- eiga að verb (expressing obligation)
Italian
1 entries- dovere verb (expressing likelihood)
Japanese
1 entries- ...べきである verb (expressing obligation)
Khmer
1 entries- គួរ verb (expressing obligation)
Korean
1 entries- 해야 한다 verb (expressing obligation)
Latin
4 entries- debeo verb (expressing likelihood)
- dēbeō verb (expressing opinion)
- nefās est verb (expressing obligation)
- nōn licet verb (expressing obligation)
Lithuanian
1 entries- turėti verb (expressing obligation)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- dejaś verb (expressing obligation)
Macedonian
4 entries- ́ако verb (if; in case of)
- би тре́бало verb (expressing likelihood)
- до́колку verb (if; in case of)
- тре́ба verb (expressing obligation)
Malay
1 entries- patut verb (expressing obligation)
Norwegian
3 entries- burde verb (expressing obligation)
- burde verb (expressing likelihood)
- skulle verb (if; in case of)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- burde verb (expressing opinion)
- skulle verb (expressing opinion)
Old English
1 entries- sċulan verb (expressing obligation)
Persian
1 entries- باید verb (expressing obligation)
Polish
4 entries- powinien verb (expressing obligation)
- powinna verb (expressing obligation)
- powinno verb (expressing obligation)
- powinno verb (expressing likelihood)
Portuguese
4 entries- caso verb (if; in case of)
- dever verb (expressing obligation)
- dever verb (expressing likelihood)
- se verb (if; in case of)
Romanian
2 entries- ar trebui verb (expressing obligation)
- ar trebui verb (expressing likelihood)
Russian
4 entries- бу́дет verb (expressing likelihood)
- до́лжен verb (expressing obligation)
- должно́ быть verb (expressing likelihood)
- е́жели verb (if; in case of)
Scots
1 entries- shud verb (expressing obligation)
Spanish
4 entries- Conditional form of deber verb (expressing obligation)
- Conditional form of deber verb (expressing opinion)
- deber verb (expressing likelihood)
- haber de verb (expressing obligation)
Swedish
4 entries- borde verb (expressing opinion)
- bör verb (expressing opinion)
- böra verb (expressing likelihood)
- om verb (if; in case of)
Thai
1 entries- ควร verb (expressing obligation)
Turkish
1 entries- meli, -malı verb (expressing obligation)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ва́рто verb (expressing obligation)
- повинен verb (expressing obligation)
- повинно verb (expressing likelihood)
- слід verb (expressing likelihood)
Urdu
4 entries- چاہئیں verb (expressing obligation)
- چاہئیے verb (expressing obligation)
- چاہئے verb (expressing obligation)
- چاہیئں verb (expressing obligation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nên verb (expressing obligation)
Welsh
3 entries- dylu verb (expressing obligation)
- dylu verb (expressing likelihood)
- os verb (if; in case of)
Yiddish
1 entries- זאָלן verb (expressing obligation)
Sample sentences
52 total sentences available.
When you're beginning to look like the photo in your passport, you should go on a holiday.
Source: tatoeba (1551)
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Source: tatoeba (1577)
You should have listened to me.
Source: tatoeba (1726)
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