need

Các nghĩa

1. cần

   To have an absolute requirement for.

   transitive

   Living things need water to survive.

   You do not always need to go to the library to study. You may use the Internet.

   She needed convincing that I was what she really needed.

2. cần · muốn

   To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

   transitive

   After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.

3. cần phải

   To be obliged or required (to do something).

   modal

   I need not go if I don't want to, need I?

   I was wondering if I need fill in more forms. - No, that's the only one you need fill out.

   I need never have packed my set of sunglasses - it rained all day every day.

4. cần

   To be required; to be necessary.

   intransitive

   When we have done it, we have done our duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs.

Dạng khác

• needs present, singular, third-person
• needing participle, present
• needed participle, past

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