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"Du måste rösta" = "You need to vote" ? Have to/need to...betyder ju samma sak, eller hur?
According to "Google Translate":
SWE-ENG a) "Du måste."="you must". b) "Du behöver."="you need to"
ENG-SWE c) "You have to vote."="Du måste." d) "You must vote."="Du behöver." e) "You need to vote."="Du måste."
Original: "A" disagrees. "C" agrees. "E" disagrees. My suggestion: "B" disagrees. "E" agrees. Conclusion: If this is all correct then "måste" translates to a/c/e. Så, har jag fel eller har jag missat något här?
Google Translate is very often wrong. It uses a statistical model for translations. Without a large enough corpus of translated text it often misses the context.
If it helps, måste is the same word as English "must". Du måste rösta = "you must vote".
English does have the defective verb "behove". We only use it in the third person: "it behoves you to vote". We usually use "need to" in its place: "you need to vote".
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In theory behöver means 'need' and måste means 'must' and 'have to'.
For many English speakers though, the difference between those has been lost, so both answers are accepted. But note that there's still more difference left between those words in Swedish.
