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# δεῖ/dei
This word describes a situation or how something is. It is a verb. However, it is not an action.
* This word can mean it is necessary.
* Sometimes this word talks about what a person must do.
* Sometimes this word talks about something that must happen.
* This word can mean ought or should.
* Sometimes this word talks about what a person should have done something that they did not do.
* Sometimes this word talks about something that should have happened that did not happen.
**Advice to translators**: This type of verb describes a state of being.