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tufguy

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Hi guys,

Can we say"we have to get up when we feel like sleeping most or very badly"?
 
I suppose so, but what is the context? I would not say that your sentence is a general rule.
 
I mean most of the people do not want to get up in the morning because they get very sweet sleep at that time.
 
'We have to get up in the morning even when sleeping soundly.'
Is it correct?
 
That's a perfectly grammatical sentence but it doesn't give the same idea as the OP's original.
 
"We have to get up when we would really very much like to keep sleeping."
 
Annoyingly, we always have to get up just as we are sleeping most deeply/soundly.
 
It is difficult to remember or memorize such a statement. Don’t you have a short, simple one?
 
We don't expect you to memorise whole sentences that we post here. The important part of that sentence is "sleeping most deeply/most soundly".
 
It is difficult to remember or memorize such a statement. Don’t you have a short, simple one?
I don't think it's possible. The sentence is as long as it is because of the number of semantic elements in it, and the precise nuance the author wants.
"We have to get up" - This can't be shortened much. "We must arise", I guess, but that's not natural.
"when"
"we would rather keep sleeping" - "we want to sleep".
"We must arise when we want to sleep." Shorter but it loses the meaning, which defeats the purpose of bothering to make a sentence.
How about "Waking up is hard to do"?
 

We would rather go to bed early since (I would add what you suggested here). OK?
It's not a matter of adding or subtracting, but saying what you mean. We have been dealing with cleaning up the sentence of the OP. He doesn't mention anything about going to bed early.

"Waking up is hard to do" is actually a pun on "Breaking up is hard to do" which is a song from way back. Few would catch the allusion.
You can follow along and substitute "waking" here: :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQD3At3E7TA
 
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