Translation
to demand, require, call for
Examples
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The work demands a lot of time.
respondon .
He demanded an answer at once.
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She demanded that we stay until the morning.
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The people demanded their rights.
kuraĝon.
That will require great courage.
sits a long way above on the politeness ladder: you a favour and you your money back. When it governs a clause, the verb inside goes into the -u form, because you are imposing a will rather than reporting a fact: , . That -u is the single most useful thing on this page. A thing as well as a person can - a task requires time, a rule requires patience - and there would be wrong, since belongs to whoever feels the lack.
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