getan werden musste

had to be done

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had to be done A past-tense passive construction with müssen: literally, “had to be done.”
GE: Wir haben getan, was getan werden musste.
EN: We did what had to be done.

Sie haben getan, was getan werden musste.

They did what had to be done.

Du hast getan, was getan werden musste.

You did what had to be done.

Ich tat, was getan werden musste.

I did what had to be done.

Wir hatten kaum Zeit, alles zu tun, was getan werden musste.

We barely had time to do everything that needed to be done.