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What does must mean?
Definitions in simple English

must

Must is usually used to tell someone they have no choice about doing something because it is important or because of a rule or law. She must get her medicine soon or she will die.

must

a necessary or essential thing seat belts are an absolute must grape juice before or during fermentation highly recommended a book that is must reading (= mustiness) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy

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What do people use must to talk about?
  • obligation, strong: it is absolutely incumbent upon the agent to complete the action of the main verb: 'I have to mail this letter today'.
  • inferred certainty: the speaker infers from evidence that the proposition is true: 'They must have killed a bear here (I can see blood on the snow)'.

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Simple sentences

Seeing that you're not surprised, I think you must have known.
I must admit that I snore.
When we borrow money, we must agree on the conditions.
You must work more.
You must keep your room clean.
You must help her, and soon!
You must not take advantage of her innocence.
You must be careful not to make him angry.
You must take his age into account.
You must pay attention to him.
You must be a fool.
You must go home at once.
You must have stayed up late.
Everyone must learn on their own in the end.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.
We must learn to meet adversity gracefully.
There are 1000 movies that one must watch before dying.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Sorry, I must have dialed the wrong number.
Teachers must get tired of rectifying the same mistakes over and over again in their students' papers.
We must think about friends.
You must practice grammar.
You must apologize to her, and that at once.

Movie subtitles

Oh, they must be twins.
And then to abandone Richard who she loved. How hard it must be not to die. Take it easy, ma'am.
He must be hurt because of me.
It seem like you like that girl. You must been embarrassed a bit.
If we are to continue, we must find a station.
I must be immune.
We must gather fuel and return here fast.
In order to use the Geass, one must look directly into the opponents' eyes.
Someone must break this chain asunder.
Before Princess Cornelia arrives, we must cleanse the shame of our fellow men!
Sorry, Yuffie. we must bid farewell to each other here.
You must be very careful around here.
Alright elders, alright. Our two new missionaries must be exhausted from all their travels.
Nabulungi, we must be careful.
That they must be very far away.
But in the meantime, he must surely have thought about other questions in Astronomy.
New observations indicated that the Universe must be much bigger than what Kapteyn had proposed.
It became clear that the spiral nebulae must be very tar away way beyond the borders of the Kapteyn Universe.
Looking at them we feel that this must be the right spot.
Those brutes must die!
He went to the Polytechnique, so he must be in favor of progress.
She must take a sip every 2 hours.
Excuse me, I must take care of Ishmael.
Algeria is and must remain a French province.
No one must ever know, otherwise Hadj Hamou will kill my son and I.
She must have put a spell on me.
Must have a pretty heavy period.
It must be killing him. Now his whole crew is like a chicken with one of its wings cut off.
Before we act, we must first talk to Nick.
It must be afternoon recess-- Excuse me.
It must be afternoon recess today!
I can show you, but you must wear this.
And now you must leave.
Well, there must be something?
You can each of you make one phone call home but you must not, under any circumstances, tell them where you are and what is happening.
All of this must be. Terribly confusing.
You must be hot.
No matter what, the first successor must be in charge.
There must not be any reporters.

News and current affairs

First, we must make certain that the relevant legislation to meet the challenge of terrorism is strictly temporary.
Second, and more importantly, our leaders must seek to calm, rather than exploit, public anxiety.
In the long run, America's growth pattern must undergo a structural shift from reliance on debt and consumption one based on Americans vaunted capacity for creativity and innovation.
The common threat of international terrorism must be faced jointly.
The bureaucracies must be bypassed to get help to where it is needed: in the soil tilled by the world's poorest farm families.
The CAP must be born again.
Perverse subsidies must be removed and recent new ones favoring products such as bio-fuels reconsidered.
That is a real enough danger to which policymakers must give serious thought as they reform the CAP on the basis of the following five pillars.
We kill other species not because we must, but because we are too negligent to do otherwise.
As we enter a new era of sustainable development, impunity must turn to responsibility.
Polluters must pay, whether in rich or poor countries.
From now on, sustainable development must not be a mere slogan, but rather an operational approach to global governance and well-being on a strained and crowded planet.
But any financial system must be able to withstand shocks, including big ones.
The aim must be not only to win back the hearts of Europeans who have become skeptical, but also to convince them that the Union is indispensable to meeting the challenges Europeans face.
But credible criticism must be based on evidence - and on generally applicable criteria of judgment.
Weak governments can be made stronger; governments that tolerate or support terrorism must be held accountable.
Terrorism must lose its legitimacy among those who have historically supported or tolerated it before it will lose its potency.

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