How to say 'I should + verb' & 'We should + verb'

Question

Hi!

I had a question about the word 'Should' before a verb. If I was talking in the preterite tense, and I said to a friend that in a recent holiday, 'I decided with my family that we should go to a new country', the word should before a verb got me confused. I know that the word 'should' comes from debería, but to say it in the past tense before a verb sort of made me stuck.

When looking on the internet, a result online said that the word would be fuésemos, so it would be written as 'Decidí con mi family para que fuésemos', but I still felt confused?

How do I say the sentence above - correctly - in a grammatical sense - in Spanish?
Thanks, Thatahmad.

Answer 1

The translation source saw your "should" as a possibility- therefore subjunctive.

I would do it this way:

Decidí con mi familia que deberíamos ir a un nuevo país.

Good, clear answer. - annierats, Jan 3, 2015

Yes, the conditional can be used in the past, and is frequently enough. - bosquederoble, Jan 3, 2015