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debe

A1Rank #218

he/she/it must, should; owes (present form of deber)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#218 of 5,000

Debe llegar a las ocho.

He must arrive at eight.

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"debe" in example sentences

"debe" appears in 530 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Así es como debe ser.

This is the way it must be.

Tatoeba #10650576

Sí, se puede, pero no se debe.

Yes, it can be done, but it shouldn't be.

Tatoeba #1705613

Lo debe usted hacer así.

You must do it this way.

Tatoeba #2259952

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "debe"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "debe"; the number is how many.

haber90ser113estar47usted33uno21tener18

Related words

deber - all tensesverb tabledeberbase formdeberíadebodebesdeberíasdebemos

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