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.