# 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.