trebiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

trijébiti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terbiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /trěːbiti/
Hyphenation: tre‧bi‧ti

Verb

trébiti impf (Cyrillic spelling тре́бити)

(transitive) to shell, husk
(transitive, figuratively) to clean impure or useless parts of something

Conjugation

Conjugation of trebiti

Infinitive: trebiti		Present verbal adverb: trébēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trébljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		trebim	trebiš	trebi	trebimo	trebite	trebe
Future	Future I	trebit ću¹ trebiću	trebit ćeš¹ trebićeš	trebit će¹ trebiće	trebit ćemo¹ trebićemo	trebit ćete¹ trebićete	trebit će¹ trebiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm trebio²	bȕdēš trebio²	bȕdē trebio²	bȕdēmo trebili²	bȕdēte trebili²	bȕdū trebili²
Past	Perfect	trebio sam²	trebio si²	trebio je²	trebili smo²	trebili ste²	trebili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam trebio²	bȉo si trebio²	bȉo je trebio²	bíli smo trebili²	bíli ste trebili²	bíli su trebili²
	Imperfect	trebljah	trebljaše	trebljaše	trebljasmo	trebljaste	trebljahu
Conditional I		trebio bih²	trebio bi²	trebio bi²	trebili bismo²	trebili biste²	trebili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih trebio²	bȉo bi trebio²	bȉo bi trebio²	bíli bismo trebili²	bíli biste trebili²	bíli bi trebili²
Imperative		—	trebi	—	trebimo	trebite	—
Active past participle		trebio m / trebila f / trebilo n			trebili m / trebile f / trebila n
Passive past participle		trebljen m / trebljena f / trebljeno n			trebljeni m / trebljene f / trebljena 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.

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