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| Subject | Russian | English |
| gen. | но так не должно быть | but it doesn't have to be this way (Vladimir Shevchuk) |
| disappr. | так не должно быть | it shouldn't be this way (One time this past summer my wife and I were on a patio and one homeless man came over to ask for change, we told him we didn't have any (everyone is cashless for COVID) and he started berating us. Second presumably homeless man comes up and tells the first man to leave us alone, be nice to people, and gives him what money he has to leave us alone. It shouldn't be this way, but I appreciated the gesture for sure.  reddit.com ART Vancouver) |
| inf. | так не должно быть | this is not okay (ART Vancouver) |
| emph. | так не должно быть | this is wrong (Побеdа) |
| gen. | так не должно быть | appear not to be the case (Ivan Pisarev) |
| disappr. | так не должно быть | it doesn't have to be that way (ART Vancouver) |
| gen. | так не должно быть | to not be the case (Ivan Pisarev) |