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How to pronounce “need”
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Pronunciation guide for need
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of need with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Eliminate Burnout Syndrome
who always need to do other things.
- Definition summary
- (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce need
Eliminate Burnout Syndrome

who always need to do other things.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “need”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
- (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- (modal, chiefly in the negative and interrogative) To be obliged or required (to do something).
- (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
- (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).
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