On this page, you can learn how to express what you have to do in Japanese.
Prerequisite
You need なform for this sentence pattern. Click here if you don’t know it.
Sentence pattern
Example
I must finish homework by tomorrow.
私は明日までにしゅくだいをおえなければなりません。
Note
You don’t have to translate ‘you’ if ‘you’ is the subject of a sentence.
Example
You must wash dishes.
あなたはさらを洗わなければなりません。
Exercise
Task: Change into Japanese.
- My uncle must read magazines till 4 o’clock.
- My younger sister has to come to school tomorrow.
- My older brother has to study psychology this year.
- You must buy milk for me.
- I have to go to London by taxi tomorrow.