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Heithr
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"The people require clean water." is accepted, but not "The people need clean water." Does this mean that "behøver" and "kræver" are not synonyms in Danish?
"at kræve" means to demand/to call for/to insist on. So "folket" are active in saying what they want.
With "at behøve/have brug for" it is just a passive statement about the needs of the people.
According to my dictionary "require" covers both meanings, so there's some overlap depending on the sentence.