Ought

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: aught
 * Homophones: aught
 * Homophones: aught
 * Homophones: aught
 * Homophones: aught
 * Homophones: aught

Etymology 1
ahte:, past tense of agan:

Verb
ought


 * 1) *1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke VII:
 * There was a certayne lender, which had two detters, the one ought five hondred pence, and the other fifty.
 * 1) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 182:
 * witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loynes, began to spit [...].
 * witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loynes, began to spit [...].

Verb

 * 1)  Indicating duty or obligation.
 * I ought to vote in the coming election.
 * 1)  Indicating advisability or prudence.
 * You ought to stand back from the edge of the platform.
 * 1)  Indicating desirability.
 * He ought to have read the book; it was very good.
 * 1)  Indicating likelihood or probability.
 * We ought to arrive by noon if we take the motorway.

Synonyms

 * should (In all senses)

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Finnish: pitää in conditional, tulla in conditional, kuulua in conditional
 * French:
 * Greek: θα έπρεπε, όφειλε
 * Italian: dovere


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: deber in either indicative or conditional.
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: pitää in conditional
 * French:
 * Greek: πρέπει
 * Italian: dovere
 * Latin:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: следовать in subjunctive mood, нужно; быть in subjunctive, + неплохо or хорошо
 * Spanish: deber in either indicative or conditional.
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: pitää in conditional
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: следовать in subjunctive, нужно, желательно
 * Spanish: deber in either indicative or conditional.
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: pitää in conditional
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: мочь (possibility), вероятно, предположительно, скорее всего (verb ought is replaced by adverb), and other variants


 * Spanish: deber in either indicative or conditional.
 * Swedish:

Pronoun

 * 1)  anything

Adverb

 * 1)  at all, to any degree.

Noun

 * 1) A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted to what is the case.

Noun

 * 1)  cipher, zero.

Anagrams

 * tough

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