deber

B1Rank #1815

must, should; to owe

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#1815 of 5,000

Conjugate deber - all tenses →

La gente no debería mensajear y conducir.

People shouldn't be texting and driving.

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"deber" in example sentences

"deber" appears in 4,105 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 34 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

¿Por qué no debería?

Why shouldn't I?

Tatoeba #1466694

Me lo debes.

You owe me.

Tatoeba #687967

La debo una.

I owe her one.

Tatoeba #10922990

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "deber"

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