behöva — meaning in English

English meaning

• love verb To feel deep affection or care for someone or something.
• need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
• require verb To need something as essential.

Senses

behöva is used for these senses in English:

• love (transitive) To need, thrive on.
• require Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15th c.]

love — full definition

1. verb To feel deep affection or care for someone or something.
2. verb To like something very much.
3. noun A strong feeling of deep affection.
4. noun (tennis) A score of zero.

need — full definition

1. noun A requirement for something essential or important.
2. noun Poverty or lack of basic means of living.
3. verb To require something as essential.
4. verb To be obliged to do something.

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