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devoir

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Definition:
1. (archaic English) duty
2. (French)
{n} duty
{v} must, to have to

present tense conjugation:
singular: dois, dois, doit
plural: devons devez, doivent
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Then were the gates shut, and cried was loud;
"Do now your devoir, younge knights proud

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
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"Et vous oubliez votre devoir," she said to Veslovsky, who came out too on the steps.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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“Et cela doit signifier,”* said she,

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
*and that must mean
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