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| Language | Translations for "TO NEED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تطلب, احتاج. (various references) | |
Asturian | necesitar. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | sstsina' (to need to). (various references) | |
Cebuano | magkinahanglan. (various references) | |
Chamorro | para ma nisisita. (various references) | |
Chinese | 需要 (needs), 需 (necessity, need, to require, to want). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | mutsuna. (various references) | |
Faeroese | at tørva. (various references) | |
Frisian | hoege. (various references) | |
German | Du brauchst unbedingt Hilfe. (You're certain to need help.). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szükséges (needful, requisite, necessary, to require), szüksége van (need, to want), megkövetel (to demand, to require), kell (must, have got to, have to, ought, to require), igényel (to call for, to claim, to demand, to want). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | pijumalluni. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 要る. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つかう (to circulate, to consume, to dispatch, to donate, to employ, to handle, to manipulate, to practise, to send, to speak, to spend, to take, to use, to want), いる (to be, to boil down, to broil, to cast, to coin, to come in, to exist, to fire, to flow into, to fry, to get in, to go in, to mint, to parch, to roast, to set, to set in, to shoot). (various references) | |
Kongo | ku-vwa mfunu. (various references) | |
Macedonian | treba. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay eednay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | precisar (crave, define, determine, need, require, specify, take). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | precisar. (various references) | |
Provencal | far mestièr. (various references) | |
Ruanda | gukenera. (various references) | |
Samoan | e manaomia. (various references) | |
Sepedi | hloka. (various references) | |
Swazi | kú-dzinga. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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