"Musisz mieć kontrolę nad tymi pracownikami."

Translation: You have to have control over these employees.

[Euhan1]

...and that's why we had to make an example of Mr Hoffa.

[Yomer01]

Is the word "musieć" cognate with English "must" and German "muss"?

[Joridiy]

I may not be the expert in the topic... But I guess not.

The literal meaning of "musieć" is «to have to». In Spanish we have the same difference by «deber» (must) and «tener que» (have to).

I guess the perfect example would be "I have to wait" (no matter what you do, you will wait even if you don't want) and "I must wait" (you aren't allowed to do this but yet you can do it, ¡but it's not right!).

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Probably cognate, but a different meaning...

[Jellei]

The meaning seems the same to me...

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Well... Duo fairly consistently faults Pl->En sentences with "must" and suggests some form of "have to".

[Jellei]

Well, I guess "have to" seems more appropriate to me usually, I think "must" should rather be accepted, although that would need to be checked on particular examples... it is accepted here.

[JanKLinde]

The combination of "have to" with "have" seems quite unusual to me. I think "must have" is the most natural translation here.

[JerryMcCarthy99]

"have to have" feels OK to me (Br. Eng). "must have" is accepted here though.

[JerryMcCarthy99]

More likely English would be "take control of".

[Jellei]

Added now.

[Walkinthedog]

You must have, is more compact and tells the same story.

[jw8DP]

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