dever

See also: Dever, déver, and devêr

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Latin debeo, debere.

Verb

1. to have to
2. should
3. must

Noun

1. duty

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• deure

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”).

Verb

dever

1. to have to
2. to owe

Conjugation

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		dever			aver devent
gerund		dever (also deure)			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		devent			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	degut	devi	deves	deu	devèm	devètz
	imperfect	devon	deviái	deviás	deviá	deviam	deviatz
	preterite	devián	deurai	deuràs	deurà	deurem	deuretz
	future	deuràn	deguèri	deguères	deguèt	deguèrem	deguèretz
	conditional	deguèron	deuriái	deuriás	deuriá	deuriam	deuriatz
	conditional 2nd form1	devètz	{{{50}}}	{{{51}}}	{{{52}}}	{{{53}}}	{{{54}}}
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	deurián	dega	degas	dega	degam	degatz
	imperfect	degan	deguèsse	deguèsses	deguèsse	deguèssem	deguèssetz
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			deguèsson		deu	degam	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe; I must”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈβeɾ/

Verb

dever

1. must; to have to

Descendants

• Fala: debel
• Galician: deber
• Portuguese: dever

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese dever, from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɨ.ˈveɾ/
• IPA^(key): /de.ˈveʁ/, /de.ˈveɾ/

Verb

1. should (indicates that an action is considered by the speaker to be obligatory)
2. ought (indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate.)
3. will likely (indicates that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.)
4. owe (to be in debt.)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dever.

Noun

dever m (plural es)

1. duty (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dever.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• djȅver (Ijekavian)
• dȉver (Ikavian)
• đȅver (Montenegro)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *děverь, from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr. Compare Russian деверь (deverʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dêver/
• Hyphenation: de‧ver

Noun

dȅver m (Cyrillic spelling де̏вер)

1. brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)

Declension

Declension of dever

	singular	plural
nominative	dever	deveri
genitive	devera	devera
dative	deveru	deverima
accusative	devera	devere
vocative	deveru	deveri
locative	deveru	deverima
instrumental	deverom	deverima

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Spanish

Verb

dever (first-person singular present devo, first-person singular preterite deví, past participle devido)

1. Obsolete spelling of deber