what does deberia mean in Spanish? And how would you use it?

Question

what does deberia mean in Spanish? And how would you use it?

Answer 1

Deber is the verb used in spanish to mean: must, would should. ought to and to owe.

In the form debería -which is in the conditional tense it can either mean I would/should = yo debería ...or

el /ella /Ud debería = he/she /you would/should (formal and singular)

This is one of the few occasions when you would use a personal pronoun with the verb to clarify to whom the verb is referring: (unless the person has already been mentioned or is implied from the context) for example:

Yo debería comprar un regalo por mi hermano pero no tengo suficiente dinero = I would buy a present for my brother but I don't have enough money

o ...El debería completar su deberes pero está cansado = he should finish his homework but he is tired.

Answer 2

It's the first or third person singular (conditional tense) of the verb deber, which means 'to have to do something'.

él no debería fumar tanto -> he shouldn't smoke so much