treba

See also: Treba, třeba, and třěba

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trěːba/
  • Hyphenation: tre‧ba

Noun

tréba f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ба)

  1. (slang) girl, chick
Declension
Declension of treba
singular plural
nominative treba trebe
genitive trebe treba
dative trebi trebama
accusative trebu trebe
vocative trebo trebe
locative trebi trebama
instrumental trebama trebama
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:treba.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terba.

Alternative forms

Noun

tréba f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ба) (Ekavian, Ijekavian)

  1. need
    tr(ij)eba je, tr(ij)ebe je — it is necessary

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terba. Cognates include Czech třeba, Russian тре́ба (tréba), Polish trzeba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtreba]

Adverb

treba

  1. be necessary, be needed

Further reading

  • “treba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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