debemus

debemus is a Latin form of debeo, meaning “owe; ought, must”. It is the 1st person plural present active indicative.

Found 209 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.153: … s enim liberos parvos; incertum est quam longa cuiusque nostrum vita futura sit; consulere vivi ac prospicere debemus ut illorum solitudo et pueritia quam firmissimo praesidio munita sit. quis est enim qui tueri possit liberum …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.30.1: Debemus mehercule natales tuos perinde ac nostros celebrare, cum laetitia nostrorum ex tuis pendeat, cuius diligentia et cura hic hilares istic securi sumus.

All forms of debeo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.