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Isla_Harlow
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Maybe this has been asked before, elsewhere, but is there a difference between "behøve" and "trenge"?
It's "behove", not "behoove", certainly in British English, and the verb construction is different: "It behoves her....", which is quite old-fashioned. I'm not disagreeing about whether the two ( Norwegian "behøve" and English "behove" ) are cognates or not. "Behoof" (archaic) is the noun, in English; "behove" is the transitive verb ,from OE "behofian".