Debidas

Debidas is the feminine plural form of the past participle of the verb deber and of the adjective debido, used to indicate that something is owed, payable, or due. It agrees with feminine plural nouns, for example, facturas debidas (due invoices) or obligaciones debidas (owed obligations).

Usage of debidas is common in legal, accounting, and administrative contexts. It marks items that must be settled or have reached their due date, such as cuentas debidas (due accounts) or cantidades debidas (amounts owed). Debidas functions as a descriptive term rather than a noun, helping to distinguish payable items from other categories like deudas (debts) or ingresos (income).

Etymology and forms: debidas derives from debere, via the Spanish form debído/debido meaning due or owed. The masculine singular form is debido, the feminine singular is debida, and the masculine plural is debidos, with debidas serving feminine plural usage. The neuter sense in fixed phrases follows the same root, as in debidos procesos, though the most famous collocation in law is debidamente, an adverb meaning properly or duly.

Notes: Debidas should not be confused with deudas, a noun meaning debts. Debidas describes the status of items as due, whereas deudas names the total amount owed. In phrases like debida diligencia, the feminine singular debida modifies a feminine noun (diligencia).

See also: debido, debida, deudas, deuda, debido proceso.