Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
US:
- UK:
- cot-caught:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
- Ought on
sanan owe imperfekti (vanhentunut).
Esimerkit
- There was a certayne lender, which had two detters, the one ought five hondred pence, and the other fifty.
- witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loynes, began to spit.
- I ought to vote in the coming election.
- You ought to stand back from the edge of the platform.
- He ought to read the book; it was very good.
- My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
- We ought to arrive by noon if we take the motorway.
- Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there [...] where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?
- There are value judgments that are not reducible to observable matters of fact, and there are oughts that cannot be construed as hypothetical and, therefore, cannot be converted into statements of fact.
- Is there a fallacy involved in deriving an ought from a set of exclusively factual or descriptive premises?
- You ought to vote in the coming election.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | oughts |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | oughteth (vanhahtava) |