# 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.