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なければならない なければならない

  1. have to do; must; ought to; should

でなければならない でなければならない

  1. having to be; must be; ought to be; should be

成る なる

  1. to attain; to become; to get; to grow; to reach; to turn
  2. to end up; to prove (to be); to result in; to turn out
  3. to be composed of; to be made up of; to consist of
  4. to be accomplished; to be attained; to be completed; to be realized; to succeed
  5. to change (into); to transform; to turn (into)
  6. to begin (to do); to come (to do); to grow (to do)
  7. to add up to; to amount to; to come to; to make
  8. to act as; to play (the part of)
  9. to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as
  10. to be promoted
  11. to do ...
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A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.