debía

Meaning

first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of deber

Frequency

Hyphenated as

de‧bí‧a

Pronounced as (IPA)

/deˈbia/

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deber

1. (transitive) to owe
2. (auxiliary) must, to need to, to have to (rarely used in the conditional with this meaning)
3. (auxiliary) should, to ought to, to be supposed to, to be to
4. (auxiliary) should have (in the preterite; having haber follow "deber" is optional and not required)
5. (auxiliary,emphatic) shall (future tense usually)
6. (reflexive) to be due to, to be attributable to, to be the result of, to be caused by
7. probably or most likely do or happen something (add a degree of insecurity to the verb)

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Allí , el jugador debía encontrar una palabra escondida .

There, the player had to find a hidden word.

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