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No. 239 in Slovak

museli

"Museli" is the past tense of "must," meaning "had to."

In a sentence

  • Včera sme museli ísť nakupovať, pretože nám došlo jedlo.

    Yesterday, we had to go shopping because we ran out of food.

    Here, "museli" is used in the past tense indicating a necessity or obligation in the past.

  • Museli by ste sa viac snažiť, aby ste dosiahli úspech.

    You would have to try harder to achieve success.

    In this sentence, "museli" is in the conditional mood, suggesting a hypothetical obligation or necessity.

  • Ak by nám pomohli, nemuseli by sme to robiť sami.

    If they had helped us, we would not have had to do it ourselves.

    Here, "museli" is used in a contrafactual conditional clause to express an unfulfilled necessity in relation to a hypothetical scenario.

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