Knowing relations between words can help understand their meanings and build a more connected vocabulary network. Here, you can explore parents and offspring and discover the whole family.
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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "mussen" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "mussen" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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Is it right to think that müssen used in an auxilliary way implies a ‘hard’ a form of must; like one has got to ….
whereas if it is transitional it is ‘softer’?
I don’t really understand what you mean.
Could you give me an example for each one?
Perhaps my question is nonsense i have picked up from somewhere.
Okay, clear so far, but I still don’t know what you mean by the distinction “auxilliary vs transitional”. The verb is auxilliary in both of your examples, imo.