tribati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

trebati (Ijekavian and Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terbati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tribati/
Hyphenation: tri‧ba‧ti

Verb

tribati impf (Cyrillic spelling трибати)

(transitive, Ikavian) to need, require
(impersonal, Ikavian) to be necessary, one should
(impersonal, Ikavian) to be supposed to, to have to

Conjugation

Conjugation of *tribati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		tribati
present verbal adverb		tribajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		tribānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		tribam	tribaš	triba	tribamo	tribate	tribaju
future	future I	tribat ću¹ tribaću	tribat ćeš¹ tribaćeš	tribat će¹ tribaće	tribat ćemo¹ tribaćemo	tribat ćete¹ tribaćete	tribat ćē¹ tribaće
future	future II	bȕdēm tribao²	bȕdēš tribao²	bȕdē tribao²	bȕdēmo tribali²	bȕdēte tribali²	bȕdū tribali²
past	perfect	tribao sam²	tribao si²	tribao je²	tribali smo²	tribali ste²	tribali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam tribao²	bȉo si tribao²	bȉo je tribao²	bíli smo tribali²	bíli ste tribali²	bíli su tribali²
	imperfect	tribah	tribaše	tribaše	tribasmo	tribaste	tribahu
conditional	conditional I	tribao bih²	tribao bi²	tribao bi²	tribali bismo²	tribali biste²	tribali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih tribao²	bȉo bi tribao²	bȉo bi tribao²	bíli bismo tribali²	bíli biste tribali²	bíli bi tribali²
imperative		—	tribaj	—	tribajmo	tribajte	—
active past participle		tribao m / tribala f / tribalo n			tribali m / tribale f / tribala n

¹ Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.
² For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively.
³ Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (“to be”) is routinely dropped.
⁴ Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (“to be”) is routinely dropped.
*Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.