trebati
Appearance
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terbati.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]trȅbati impf (Cyrillic spelling тре̏бати)
- (intransitive) to be needed, to be required (+ dative: by (someone))
- Treba mi novi auto. ― I need a new car.
- (transitive) to need, require
- Mislila sam da trebaš pomoć. ― I thought you might need help.
- (impersonal) to be necessary, should
- Trebao bih o tome razgovarati s ocem ― I should discuss it with my father
- Jesi li siguran da bismo trebali raditi ovo? ― Are you sure we should be doing this?
- Nismo to trebali učiniti. ― We shouldn't have done it.
- (impersonal) to be supposed to, to have to
- Samo mi trebaš v(j)erovati. ― You just have to trust me on it.
- Tko ga je trebao zaustaviti? ― Who was supposed to stop him?
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of trebati
Infinitive: trebati | Present verbal adverb: trȅbajūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: trȅbānje | ||||
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Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
Present | trebam | trebaš | treba | trebamo | trebate | trebaju | |
Future | Future I | trebat ću1 trebaću |
trebat ćeš1 trebaćeš |
trebat će1 trebaće |
trebat ćemo1 trebaćemo |
trebat ćete1 trebaćete |
trebat će1 trebaće |
Future II | bȕdēm trebao2 | bȕdēš trebao2 | bȕdē trebao2 | bȕdēmo trebali2 | bȕdēte trebali2 | bȕdū trebali2 | |
Past | Perfect | trebao sam2 | trebao si2 | trebao je2 | trebali smo2 | trebali ste2 | trebali su2 |
Pluperfect3 | bȉo sam trebao2 | bȉo si trebao2 | bȉo je trebao2 | bíli smo trebali2 | bíli ste trebali2 | bíli su trebali2 | |
Imperfect | trebah | trebaše | trebaše | trebasmo | trebaste | trebahu | |
Conditional I | trebao bih2 | trebao bi2 | trebao bi2 | trebali bismo2 | trebali biste2 | trebali bi2 | |
Conditional II4 | bȉo bih trebao2 | bȉo bi trebao2 | bȉo bi trebao2 | bíli bismo trebali2 | bíli biste trebali2 | bíli bi trebali2 | |
Imperative | — | trebaj | — | trebajmo | trebajte | — | |
Active past participle | trebao m / trebala f / trebalo n | trebali m / trebale f / trebala 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.
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “trebati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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