must
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Pronunciation
[change]- (stressed) IPA (key): /mʌst/, SAMPA: /mVst/
- (unstressed) IPA (key): /məs(t)/, SAMPA: /m@s(t)/
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Verb
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- (modal) 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.
- (modal) If you say something must be true, you say you have come to believe that it is true.
- I must have left my phone at the restaurant.
- She must not have the note if you've got it.