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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