debían
Meaning
third-person plural imperfect indicative of deber
Frequency
Hyphenated as
de‧bí‧an
Pronounced as (IPA)
/deˈbian/
New
deber
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- (transitive) to owe
- (auxiliary) must, to need to, to have to (rarely used in the conditional with this meaning)
- (auxiliary) should, to ought to, to be supposed to, to be to
- (auxiliary) should have (in the preterite; having haber follow "deber" is optional and not required)
- (auxiliary,emphatic) shall (future tense usually)
- (reflexive) to be due to, to be attributable to, to be the result of, to be caused by
- probably or most likely do or happen something (add a degree of insecurity to the verb)
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Sentences
Continente y contenido debían marchar de acuerdo .
Continent and content had to go together.
