How to Say Ought in Different Languages
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Please find below many ways to say ought in different languages. This page features translation of the word "ought" to over 100 other languages. We also invite you to listen to audio pronunciation in more than 40 languages, so you could learn how to pronounce ought and how to read it.
Saying Ought in European Languages
| Language | Ways to say ought | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | duhet | |
| Basque | beharko luke | |
| Belarusian | павінен [pavinien] | |
| Bosnian | trebalo bi | |
| Bulgarian | би трябвало [bi tryabvalo] | |
| Catalan | hauria | |
| Corsican | duveria | |
| Croatian | trebao bi | |
| Czech | měl by | |
| Danish | burde | |
| Dutch | zou moeten | |
| Estonian | peaks | |
| Finnish | pitäisi | |
| French | Devrait | |
| Frisian | moat | |
| Galician | debería | |
| German | sollen | |
| Greek | πρέπει [prépei] | |
| Hungarian | kellene | |
| Icelandic | Ætti | |
| Irish | chóir | |
| Italian | dovrebbe | |
| Latvian | vajadzētu | |
| Lithuanian | turėtų | |
| Luxembourgish | soll | |
| Macedonian | би требало [bi trebalo] | |
| Maltese | suppost | |
| Norwegian | burde | |
| Polish | powinien | |
| Portuguese | Deveria | |
| Romanian | ar trebui | |
| Russian | должен [dolzhen] | |
| Scots Gaelic | bu chòir | |
| Serbian | требало би [trebalo bi] | |
| Slovak | mal by | |
| Slovenian | bi moral | |
| Spanish | debería | |
| Swedish | borde | |
| Tatar | тиеш | |
| Ukrainian | слід [povynen] | |
| Welsh | dylai | |
| Yiddish | דארף [darf] | |
Saying Ought in Asian Languages
| Language | Ways to say ought | |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | պետք է [petk’ e] | |
| Azerbaijani | gərək | |
| Bengali | উচিত [ucita] | |
| Chinese Simplified | 应该 [yīnggāi] | |
| Chinese Traditional | 應該 [yīnggāi] | |
| Georgian | უნდა [unda] | |
| Gujarati | જોઈએ [jō'ī'ē] | |
| Hindi | चाहिए [chaahie] | |
| Hmong | yuav | |
| Japanese | すべきだ | |
| Kannada | ಬೇಕು [bēku] | |
| Kazakh | керек [kerek] | |
| Khmer | គួរតែ | |
| Korean | 영 [yeong] | |
| Kyrgyz | керек [kerek] | |
| Lao | ຄວນ [khuan] | |
| Malayalam | വേണം [venam] | |
| Marathi | पाहिजे [pāhijē] | |
| Mongolian | ёстой [yostoi] | |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | သင့် [sang] | |
| Nepali | गर्नुपर्छ [garnuparcha] | |
| Odia | ଉଚିତ | |
| Pashto | باید | |
| Punjabi | ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ [cāhīdā hai] | |
| Sindhi | گهرجي | |
| Sinhala | විය යුතුය [viya yutuya] | |
| Tajik | бояд | |
| Tamil | வேண்டும் [vēṇṭum] | |
| Telugu | తప్పక [tappaka] | |
| Thai | ควร | |
| Turkish | gerekir | |
| Turkmen | etmeli | |
| Urdu | چاہئے | |
| Uyghur | تېگىشلىك | |
| Uzbek | kerak | |
| Vietnamese | Nên | |
Saying Ought in Middle-Eastern Languages
| Language | Ways to say ought | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ينبغي [yanbaghi] | |
| Hebrew | צריך | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | divê | |
| Persian | باید | |
Saying Ought in African Languages
| Language | Ways to say ought | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | behoort | |
| Amharic | ይገባል [yigebali] | |
| Chichewa | ayenera | |
| Hausa | ya kamata | |
| Igbo | kwesịrị | |
| Kinyarwanda | bikwiye | |
| Sesotho | lokela | |
| Shona | zvinofanira | |
| Somali | waajib | |
| Swahili | lazima | |
| Xhosa | kufanele | |
| Yoruba | yẹ | |
| Zulu | kufanele | |
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"Ought in Different Languages." In Different Languages, https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/ought. Accessed 03 Oct 2023.
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