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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnɛs.ə.sɹi/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnɛs.əˌsɛ.ɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈnɛs.əˌsɛ.ɹi/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• nonstandard: /ˈnɛs.ə.ɹi/
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• India, North: /nᵻˈsɛsə.ri/
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• India, South: /ˈnɛs.ə.sə.ri/
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• CMU ARPABET: N EH1 S AH0 S EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede. Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.

203 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: nodig — needed, required
• Albanian: duhur — needed, required
• Amharic: አስፈላጊ (ʾäsfälagi) — needed, required
• Arabic: ضَرُورِيّ (ḍarūriyy) — needed, required
• Arabic: لَازِم (lāzim) — needed, required
• Arabic: لازم (lāzim) — needed, required
• Arabic: ضروري (ḍarūri) — needed, required
• Arabic: لازم (lāzim) — needed, required
• Armenian: անհրաժեշտ (anhražešt) — needed, required
• Armenian: հարկավոր (harkavor) — needed, required
• Asturian: necesariu — needed, required
• Azerbaijani: gərəkli — needed, required
• Azerbaijani: zəruri — needed, required
• Azerbaijani: lazımi — needed, required
• Azerbaijani: lazım olan — needed, required
• Basque: beharrezko — needed, required
• Belarusian: патрэ́бны (patrébny) — needed, required
• Belarusian: неабхо́дны (njeabxódny) — needed, required
• Bengali: জরুরি (joruri) — needed, required
• Bengali: দরকার (dorkar) — needed, required
• Bengali: প্রয়োজন (proẏōjon) — needed, required
• Bengali: প্রয়োজনীয় (proẏōjoniẏo) — needed, required
• Breton: dav — needed, required
• Bulgarian: необходи́м (neobhodím) — needed, required
• Bulgarian: ну́жен (núžen) — needed, required
• Bulgarian: потре́бен (potrében) — needed, required
• Burmese: လိုအပ် (luiap) — needed, required
• Catalan: necessari — needed, required
• Chinese Mandarin: 必要的 (bìyào de) — needed, required
• Czech: nutný — needed, required
• Czech: potřebný — needed, required
• Danish: nødvendig — needed, required
• Dutch: nodig — needed, required
• Dutch: noodzakelijk — needed, required
• Esperanto: necesa — needed, required
• Estonian: vajalik — needed, required
• Estonian: tarvilik — needed, required
• Finnish: tarpeellinen — needed, required
• Finnish: tähdellinen — needed, required
• Finnish: tärkeä — needed, required
• Finnish: tarvittava — needed, required
• French: nécessaire — needed, required
• Galician: necesario — needed, required
• Galician: preciso — needed, required
• Georgian: საჭირო (sač̣iro) — needed, required
• German: nötig — needed, required
• German: notwendig — needed, required
• German: erforderlich — needed, required
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌱𐍃 (þarbs) — needed, required
• Greek: απαραίτητος (aparaítitos) — needed, required
• Greek: ζωτικής σημασίας (zotikís simasías) — needed, required
• Ancient Greek: ἀναγκαῖος (anankaîos) — needed, required
• Haitian Creole: nesesè — needed, required
• Gurani: پنەۋیس (pinewîs) — needed, required
• Hebrew: נָחוּץ (nahuts) — needed, required
• Hebrew: הֶכְרֵחִי (hekhrekhi) — needed, required
• Hindi: ज़रूरी (zarūrī) — needed, required
• Hindi: आवश्यक (āvaśyak) — needed, required
• Hungarian: szükséges — needed, required
• Hungarian: szükségszerű — needed, required
• Hungarian: nélkülözhetetlen — needed, required
• Hungarian: elengedhetetlen — needed, required
• Hunsrik: nedich — needed, required
• Hunsrik: nodwennich — needed, required
• Icelandic: nauðsynlegur — needed, required
• Ido: necesa — needed, required
• Indonesian: perlu — needed, required
• Indonesian: penting — needed, required
• Interlingua: necesse — needed, required
• Interlingua: necessari — needed, required
• Irish: riachtanach — needed, required
• Irish: de dhíth — needed, required
• Irish: ag teastáil — needed, required
• Irish: is gá — needed, required
• Italian: necessario — needed, required
• Japanese: 必要 (hitsuyō) — needed, required
• Kazakh: қажетті (qajettı) — needed, required
• Kazakh: керекті (kerektı) — needed, required
• Kazakh: қажет (qajet) — needed, required
• Khmer: ចាំបាច់ (cambac) — needed, required
• Korean: 필요하다 (piryohada) — needed, required
• Central Kurdish: پێویست (pêwîst) — needed, required
• Northern Kurdish: pêdivî — needed, required
• Kyrgyz: зарыл (zarıl) — needed, required
• Kyrgyz: кажет (kajet) — needed, required
• Kyrgyz: керектүү (kerektüü) — needed, required
• Ladino: menesterozo — needed, required
• Lao: ຈໍາເປັນ (cham pen) — needed, required
• Latin: necesse — needed, required
• Latvian: vajadzīgs — needed, required
• Lithuanian: reikalingas — needed, required
• Lithuanian: būtinas — needed, required
• Luxembourgish: néideg — needed, required
• Macedonian: неопходен (neophoden) — needed, required
• Macedonian: потребен (potreben) — needed, required
• Macedonian: нужен (nužen) — needed, required
• Malay: perlu — needed, required
• Malayalam: ആവശ്യം (āvaśyaṁ) — needed, required
• Mongolian: шаардлагатай (šaardlagataj) — needed, required
• Mongolian: хэрэгтэй (xeregtej) — needed, required
• Norman: nécessaithe — needed, required
• Norwegian Bokmål: nødvendig — needed, required
• Norwegian Bokmål: påkrevd — needed, required
• Occitan: necessari — needed, required
• Old Church Slavonic: неволꙗ (nevolja) — needed, required
• Old English: behoflic — needed, required
• Old English: neodþearflic — needed, required
• Old English: niedbehæfdlic — needed, required
• Old English: niedbehefe — needed, required
• Old English: niedbehof — needed, required
• Old English: niedbehoflic — needed, required
• Old English: niedbeþearf — needed, required
• Old English: niedful — needed, required
• Old English: niedlic — needed, required
• Old English: niedþearf — needed, required
• Old English: niedþearflic — needed, required
• Old English: oferneod — needed, required
• Old English: þearflic — needed, required
• Pashto: ضروري (zarurí) — needed, required
• Pashto: لازم (lāzém) — needed, required
• Pashto: اړين (aṛín) — needed, required
• Persian: لازم (lâzem) — needed, required
• Persian: ضروری (zaruri) — needed, required
• Persian: بایسته (bâyeste) — needed, required
• Persian: واجب (vâjeb) — needed, required
• Polish: potrzebny — needed, required
• Polish: konieczny — needed, required
• Portuguese: necessário — needed, required
• Punjabi: ਲੋੜੀਂਦਾ (loṛīndā) — needed, required
• Romanian: necesar — needed, required
• Russian: необходи́мый (neobxodímyj) — needed, required
• Russian: ну́жный (núžnyj) — needed, required
• Scottish Gaelic: deatamach — needed, required
• Scottish Gaelic: riatanach — needed, required
• Serbo-Croatian: потребан — needed, required
• Serbo-Croatian: нужан — needed, required
• Serbo-Croatian: potreban — needed, required
• Serbo-Croatian: nužan — needed, required
• Slovak: nevyhnutný — needed, required
• Slovak: nutný — needed, required
• Slovak: potrebný — needed, required
• Slovene: potrebno — needed, required
• Slovene: nujen — needed, required
• Lower Sorbian: notny — needed, required
• Spanish: necesario — needed, required
• Spanish: menester — needed, required
• Spanish: preciso — needed, required
• Swedish: nödvändig — needed, required
• Tagalog: kailangan — needed, required
• Tajik: лозим (lozim) — needed, required
• Tajik: зарурӣ (zaruri) — needed, required
• Tajik: даркорӣ (darkori) — needed, required
• Tajik: воҷиб (vojib) — needed, required
• Tamil: தேவையான (tēvaiyāṉa) — needed, required
• Telugu: అవసరమైన (avasaramaina) — needed, required
• Telugu: కావాల్సిన (kāvālsina) — needed, required
• Thai: จําเป็น (jam-bpen) — needed, required
• Tibetan: མཁོ་བ (mkho ba) — needed, required
• Tibetan: ཁ་ཚ་པོ (kha tsha po) — needed, required
• Turkish: gerekli — needed, required
• Turkish: elzem — needed, required
• Turkish: lazım — needed, required
• Turkmen: zerur — needed, required
• Ukrainian: необхі́дний (neobxídnyj) — needed, required
• Ukrainian: потрі́бний (potríbnyj) — needed, required
• Ukrainian: немину́чий (nemynúčyj) — needed, required
• Urdu: ضروری (zarūrī) — needed, required
• Urdu: لازِمی (lāzimī) — needed, required
• Uyghur: زۆرۈر (zörür) — needed, required
• Uyghur: لازىم (lazim) — needed, required
• Uzbek: kerakli — needed, required
• Uzbek: zarur — needed, required
• Uzbek: zaruriy — needed, required
• Uzbek: darkor — needed, required
• Uzbek: lozim — needed, required
• Vietnamese: cần — needed, required
• Vietnamese: cần thiết — needed, required
• Volapük: zesüdik — needed, required
• Welsh: angenrheidiol — needed, required
• Yiddish: נייטיק (neytik) — needed, required
• Bengali: গুরুত্বপূর্ণ (guruttopurno) — unavoidable, inevitable
• Bengali: খুবই গুরুত্বপূর্ণ (khuboi guruttopurno) — unavoidable, inevitable
• Bulgarian: необходим (neobhodim) — unavoidable, inevitable
• Bulgarian: неизбежен (neizbežen) — unavoidable, inevitable
• Galician: necesario — unavoidable, inevitable
• Galician: preciso — unavoidable, inevitable
• Russian: неизбежный (neizbezhnyy) — unavoidable, inevitable
• Russian: неотвратимый (neotvratimyy) — unavoidable, inevitable
• Bulgarian: наложителен (naložitelen) — such as must be
• Finnish: välttämätön — such as must be
• French: nécessaire — such as must be
• Galician: necesario — such as must be
• German: zwangsläufig — such as must be
• German: geboten — such as must be
• Greek: αναπόφευκτος (anapófefktos) — such as must be
• Greek: αναπόδραστος (anapódrastos) — such as must be
• Italian: necessario — such as must be
• Japanese: 当然の (tōzen no) — such as must be
• Japanese: 必然的な (hitsuzenteki na) — such as must be
• Portuguese: necessário — such as must be
• Slovak: nevyhnutný — such as must be
• Spanish: necesario — such as must be
• Bulgarian: нужник (nužnik) — lavatory