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Translate owe from English to French

Summary

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owe:
- devoir
Wiktionary:
- owe → devoir
- owe → avoir une ardoise, devoir

English

Detailed Translations for owe from English to French

owe:

owe verb

owe

– be in debt ¹
devoir
- devoir verb (dois, doit, devons, devez, doivent, devais, devait, devions, deviez, devaient, dus, dut, dûmes, dûtes, durent, devrai, devras, devra, devrons, devrez, devront)

Translation Matrix for owe:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
devoir		being forced to; being obliged to; clerical work; difficulty; duty; having to; lecture; paper; problematical case; project; task; writing
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
devoir	owe	be obliged to; have to; must; need; ought to; should; want

Synonyms for "owe":

repose on; rest on; build on; build upon
be

Related Definitions for "owe":

be in debt¹
- She owes me $200¹
- I still owe for the car¹
- The thesis owes much to his adviser¹
be obliged to pay or repay¹
be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense¹
- This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory¹

Wiktionary Translations for owe:

owe

verb

to be under an obligation
- owe → devoir
to be in debt
- owe → devoir

owe

verb

Avoir à payer une somme d’argent, à rendre ou à donner quelque chose que ce soit.
- devoir → owe
Avoir à payer une somme d’argent, à rendre ou à donner quelque chose que ce soit.
- devoir → owe; duty; must; have to; should

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• owe	→ avoir une ardoise	↔ in der Kreide stehen — Schulden haben; kann auch bedeuten, jemandem einen Gefallen schuldig zu sein; meist ist damit aber die finanzielle Schuld gemeint
• owe	→ devoir	↔ verdanken — jemandem wegen etwas zu Dank verpflichtet sein

External Machine Translations:

Related Translations for owe

owe to

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