Need

"Need" in German

Bedarf

(something required)

Bedürfnis

(something required)

Not

(lack of means of subsistence)

Notwendigkeit

(something required)

benötigen

(to have an absolute requirement for)

brauchen

(to have an absolute requirement for)

brauchen

(to want strongly)

bruuche

(to have an absolute requirement for)

müssen

(to be obliged to)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.