～なきゃいけない-ending, what is it?
I never meet this ending before. Please, explain me functions and situations where this ending may be used.
Whole sentence, there this ending is in two plases:
私たちだって眠らなきゃいけないし大きな魚に食べらなように隠れなきゃけないから。
My variant of translation: We are looking for a place, there we could sleep and hide from big fishes.

Question

～なきゃいけない-ending, what is it? 
I never meet this ending before. Please, explain  me  functions and situations where this ending may be used.
Whole sentence, there this ending is in two plases:
私たちだって眠らなきゃいけないし大きな魚に食べらなように隠れなきゃけないから。
My variant of translation: We are looking for a place, there we could sleep and hide from big fishes.

Answer

[～なきゃいけない]というのは[～しなければいけない]をくずした言い方ですね。

have to～やmust～と同じ意味だと思います。

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