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debes

debes is a Latin form of debeo, meaning “owe; ought, must”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 184 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 54: … ea praetereas quae, cum taces, nulla esse concedis; illud quidem, voluisse exheredare, certe tu planum facere debes. quid ergo adfers qua re id factum putemus? vere nihil potes dicere; finge aliquid saltem commode ut ne plane …

Horace, Epistulae 1.3.30: Debes hoc etiam rescribere, sit tibi curae

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.