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Detailed Translations for need from English to German

need:

to need verb (needs, needed, needing)

  1. to need (require; want)
    brauchen; nötig haben; bedürfen
    • brauchen verb (brauche, brauchst, braucht, brauchte, brauchtet, gebraucht)
    • bedürfen verb (bedarf, bedarfst, bedurfte, bedurftet, bedurft)
  2. to need (must; want; have to)
    müssen; wollen; sollen; helfen
    • müssen verb (muß, mußt, mußte, mußtet, gemußt)
    • wollen verb (will, willst, wollte, wolltet, gewollt)
    • sollen verb (soll, sollst, sollte, solltet, gesollt)
    • helfen verb (helfe, hilfst, hilft, half, halft, geholfen)
  3. to need
    müssen; brauchen
    • müssen verb (muß, mußt, mußte, mußtet, gemußt)
    • brauchen verb (brauche, brauchst, braucht, brauchte, brauchtet, gebraucht)

Conjugations for need:

present
  1. need
  2. need
  3. needs
  4. need
  5. need
  6. need
simple past
  1. needed
  2. needed
  3. needed
  4. needed
  5. needed
  6. needed
present perfect
  1. have needed
  2. have needed
  3. has needed
  4. have needed
  5. have needed
  6. have needed
past continuous
  1. was needing
  2. were needing
  3. was needing
  4. were needing
  5. were needing
  6. were needing
future
  1. shall need
  2. will need
  3. will need
  4. shall need
  5. will need
  6. will need
continuous present
  1. am needing
  2. are needing
  3. is needing
  4. are needing
  5. are needing
  6. are needing
subjunctive
  1. be needed
  2. be needed
  3. be needed
  4. be needed
  5. be needed
  6. be needed
diverse
  1. need!
  2. let's need!
  3. needed
  4. needing
1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they

need [the ~] noun

  1. the need (necessity; destitution; disaster; adversity)
    die Bedürftigkeit; die Not; die Armut; Mißgeschick; die Rückschläge; der Druck; die Seuche; Elend; die Katastrophe; Unglück; der Schicksalsschläge; der Schicksalsschlag; die Hilfsbedürftigkeit; die Ärmlichkeit
  2. the need (neediness; destitution)
  3. the need (helplessness)
  4. the need (poverty; lack; paucity; )
    die Armut; Elend; die Not

Translation Matrix for need:

NounRelated TranslationsOther Translations
Armut adversity; dearth; destitution; disaster; hardship; lack; necessity; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want crisis; emergency situation; famine; needyness; paucity; poverty; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; state of emergency; tightness
Bedürftigkeit adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need; neediness depravedness; destituteness; famine; harbourless; indigentness; needyness; of limited means; paucity; poorness; scantiness; scarcity; seediness; shabbiness; shortage; tightness
Druck adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need amount of pressure; blood pressure; circulation; compulsion; edition; hypertension; impression; pressure; print; printing; strain; volume
Elend adversity; dearth; destitution; disaster; hardship; lack; necessity; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want accident; adversity; bad luck; beastliness; calamity; crisis; destitution; difficulty; disaster; discomforts; distress; emergency situation; evil; fatality; miserability; misery; misfortune; misère; problems; reverse; squalor; state of emergency; tribulation; trouble; troubles
Hilfebedürftigkeit helplessness; need
Hilfsbedürftigkeit adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need; neediness crisis; depravedness; deprivation; destituteness; destitution; emergency situation; harbourless; hardship; insolvency; poorness; poverty; seediness; shabbiness; state of emergency
Katastrophe adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; catastrophe; destitution; disaster; evil; fatalness; misery; misfortune; misère; reverse; squalor; tribulation; trouble
Mißgeschick adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need adversity; bad luck; blows; disasters; misery; misfortune; misfortunes; punches; reverse; sorrow; squalor; trouble
Not adversity; dearth; destitution; disaster; hardship; lack; necessity; need; paucity; penury; poverty; want accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; crisis; destitution; disaster; discomforts; emergency situation; evil; misery; misfortune; misère; problems; reverse; sorrow; squalor; state of emergency; tribulation; trouble; troubles
Rückschläge adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need blows; disasters; misfortunes; punches
Schicksalsschlag adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; destitution; disaster; evil; fatality; misery; misfortune; misère; reverse; sorrow; squalor; tribulation; trouble
Schicksalsschläge adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; destitution; disaster; evil; fatality; misery; misfortune; misère; reverse; sorrow; squalor; tribulation; trouble
Seuche adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need bubonic plague; contagious illness; epidemic; pestilence; plague
Unglück adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; catastrophe; destitution; disaster; evil; fatality; misery; misfortune; misère; reverse; sorrow; squalor; tribulation; trouble
Ärmlichkeit adversity; destitution; disaster; necessity; need depravedness; deprivedness; destituteness; famine; fumblingness; harbourless; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; needyness; parsimony; paucity; poorness; scantiness; scarcity; seediness; shabbiness; shortage; skinnyness; slenderness; thinness; tightness
- demand; indigence; motivation; motive; pauperisation; pauperism; pauperization; penury; want
VerbRelated TranslationsOther Translations
bedürfen need; require; want
brauchen need; require; want
helfen have to; must; need; want accomodate; aid; assist; attend; back; back up; be attentive; be charitable to; be helpful; be of help; be useful; do good; extend the hand; give a hand; help; lend a hand; make do; make ends meet; make oneself useful; make someone glad; make someone happy; oblige; oblige someone with; prop up; second; support
müssen have to; must; need; want
nötig haben need; require; want
sollen have to; must; need; want be able
wollen have to; must; need; want like to; want; wish
- ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; postulate; require; take; want
OtherRelated TranslationsOther Translations
- call for; demand; lack; require; want
ModifierRelated TranslationsOther Translations
wollen woolen; woollen

Related Words for "need":

  • needing, needs

Synonyms for "need":


Antonyms for "need":

  • obviate

Related Definitions for "need":

  1. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior1
  2. anything that is necessary but lacking1
    • he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs1
  3. a condition requiring relief1
    • she satisfied his need for affection1
    • God has no need of men to accomplish His work1
  4. a state of extreme poverty or destitution1
    • a general state of need exists among the homeless1
  5. have need of1
  6. have or feel a need for1
    • always needing friends and money1
  7. require as useful, just, or proper1

Wiktionary Translations for need:

need
verb
  1. to be obliged to
  2. to want strongly
  3. to have an absolute requirement for
noun
  1. something needed
need
verb
  1. -
  2. etwas haben müssen
  3. gehoben, mit Genitivobjekt (Nomen, Nomengruppe oder Pronomen im Genitiv): etwas benötigen, etwas brauchen, auf etwas angewiesen sein
noun
  1. eine unvermeidliche Handlung oder Unterlassung, Entscheidung beziehungsweise Gegenstand
  2. ein Zustand des Mangels oder des Fehlens an Lebenswichtigem
  3. Voraussetzung für etwas, das ausgeführt werden soll. Im Kontext eines nicht zielgerichteten Vorganges kann es mit dem Begriff Rahmenbedingung gleichgesetzt werden.
  4. allgemein: der Wunsch oder das Verlangen nach etwas
  5. etwas, das gebraucht wird

Cross Translation:
FromToVia
need Erfordernis vereiste — datgene waar men niet buiten kan
need benötigen benodigen — nodig hebben
need brauchen; benötigen behoeven — nodig hebben
need Bedürfnis behoefte — behoefte aan iets hebben
need brauchen; bedürfen avoir besoin de — Être dans le besoin de quelque chose ; être dans un lien de nécessité, de dépendance.
need Bedarf; Bedürfnis besoin — Privation, indigence (sens general)
need Bedarf besoin — Besoin naturel, nécessité impérieuse
need Notwendigkeit nécessitécaractère de ce qui est absolument obligatoire, indispensable, de ce dont on ne peut se passer.
need benötigen; brauchen; nötig haben; bedürfen; müssen requérirprier, demander quelqu’un.

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