El verbo to must significa literalmente “deber” pero se usa en los siguientes casos:
- Para expresar certeza a una suposición.
Ejemplo:
This must be the right address!
It must be him. He told me he would come at three o’clock
- Para expresar prohibición o algo que no es recomendable hacer
Ejemplo:
you must not park your car here
you must not swim in the river - Para expresar una recomendación fuerte o un consejo.
Ejemplo:
You must take some medicine for that cough
You must see that movie
You mustn’t drink so much
- Para expresar una obligación o una necesidad.
Ejemplo:
I must go to the post office tomorrow
You must have the ticket to enter
Aforismos con must
There must be consistency in direction.
W. Edwards Deming
There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind.
Dorothy Parker
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
Abraham Lincoln
We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures
William Shakespeare
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live
Charles Bukowski