должно быть

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dɐɫʐˈno bɨtʲ]

Adverb

должно́ быть • (dolžnó bytʹ)

  1. Used as a parenthetical to express a speaker's opinion that something is certain, analogously to English "must".
    Synonym: наве́рное (navérnoje)
    Она́, должно́ быть, была́ так напу́гана. ― Oná, dolžnó bytʹ, bylá tak napúgana. ― She must've been so frightened. (literally, “She, (it) must be, was so frightened.”)
    • 1903, Антон Чехов [Anton Chekhov], “chapter I”, in Невеста, Санкт-Петербург: Журнал для всех; English translation from Robert Payne, transl., The Bride, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963:
      Слы́шно бы́ло, как где́-то далеко́, о́чень далеко́, должно́ быть, за го́родом, крича́ли лягу́шки.
      Slýšno býlo, kak gdé-to dalekó, óčenʹ dalekó, dolžnó bytʹ, za górodom, kričáli ljagúški.
      From a long way away, probably from outside the town, came the croaking of frogs.
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