See supposed to in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"word": "måtte"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"word": "mieć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"word": "powinien"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sledujet",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "следует"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"word": "tener que"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"word": "haber de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"word": "deber"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Required to, obliged to",
"word": "se supone que"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Believed to",
"word": "sollen"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Believed to",
"word": "gå for"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Believed to",
"word": "skulle"
}
],
"word": "supposed to"
}
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