Examples of using Ought in English and their translations into French
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You oughtn't have a gun.
Ought I do what Captain Finlay wants?
I oughtn't to get so angry at that young calf.
Maybe you ought to just see this.
Oughtn't I to call you Milord?
Ought not you to be a little more firm about that?
Ought we plead with God
Then you ought know I wont be tampering with any of them.
Then we ought not to commit another mistake.
We ought not to make another mistake by marrying for the wrong reasons.
What ought I to do?
But you ought to, Mary.
You really ought to.
You ought not to tire yourself.
You ought not to tell!
You ought not to waste your last hours with her this way.
We ought not to fail them.
You think I ought to… don't you dare leave.
We ought not to be here anyway.
When ought I to start?