debía

A2Rank #1231

I/he/she should, had to (imperfect form of deber)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#1231 of 5,000

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"debía" in example sentences

"debía" appears in 62 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Alguien debía hacer algo.

Somebody had to do something.

Tatoeba #3089262

No sé que debía haber hecho.

I don't know what I should've done.

Tatoeba #5206500

Eso no debía pasar.

That should not have happened.

Tatoeba #3129402

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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