English
Alternative forms
Proverb
necessity is the mother of invention
- A person who is in great need of something will find a way to get it.
Translations
a person in need will find a way
- Arabic: اَلْحَاجَة أَمّ اَلاِخْتِرَاع (al-ḥāja ʾumm al-iḵtirāʿ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 需要是發明之母 (zh), 需要是发明之母 (zh) (xūyào shì fāmíng zhī mǔ)
- Czech: nouze naučila Dalibora housti (“need taught Dalibor to play the violin”)
- Danish: nød lærer nøgen kvinde at spinde
- Dutch: noodzaak is de moeder van uitvinding, nood breekt wet
- Finnish: hätä keinon keksii
- French: La nécessité est la mère de l'invention, Nécessité fait loi
- German: Not macht erfinderisch, Notwendigkeit ist die Mutter der Erfindung
- Hungarian: a szükség találékonnyá tesz
- Icelandic: neyðin kennir naktri konu að spinna
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