Need German to English translation
 

Muss es sein?

thanks in advance!:cool:

according to this http://diction.travlang.com/GermanEn...es+sein&max=50

Result of search for "muss es sein":

if need be -- wenn es sein muss

BabelFish says: "It must be"

in this case it means "it must be". But with this particular sentence you'll need to know what kind of text it was taken from. Otherwise it can be translated in many ways. And that's why you should never use online dictionaires but ask someone who speaks the language so they can translate it correctly

muss es sein?

means

must it be?

yeah, simple phrase, must it be? is a correct translation. singular present tense verb with a modal verb seinen-to be . yup.

yep, "must it be" is correct

Correction ;)

it's sein and it's not a modal.
There are technically only 6 modals:

dürfen
können
mögen
müssen
sollen
wollen

and 3 auxilary verbs:

haben
sein
werden

It's important to know the difference, so I just wanted to clear that up ;)

Yes, context is critical...however, I think online translators and dictionarys are valuable, when used with a bit of knowlegde of the language. Must add brain into equation. ;)

And speaking of online dictionaries - there's an excellent german one, for those who don't know:
http://dict.leo.org

My German friend said that it means like, 'Must it be?'

Ja, das ist richtig! Ausgezeichnet! Fabelhaft! Total sexy!

Super geil!