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De debò means really, seriously, or for real. In this sentence, it shows surprise or checks whether the other person is serious. So it adds the sense of Do you really want the current/checking account?
A very similar everyday alternative is de veritat.
Vols is the present tense, 2nd person singular form of voler, which means to want.
So:
- jo vull = I want
- tu vols = you want
- ell / ella vol = he / she wants
Because the sentence is talking to you in the singular informal sense, vols is the correct form.
Catalan often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb already makes the subject clear. Since vols already tells us the subject is tu, there is no need to say it.
So De debò vols el compte corrent? is completely natural.
If you did say tu, it would sound more emphatic, as if contrasting with someone else: De debò tu vols el compte corrent?