треба

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треба • (treba) third-singular present, impf (perfective затреба or притреба)

1. (intransitive, impersonal) to be necessary, be advisable (corresponds to "should")
2. (intransitive) to need

   Ми треба нов стан.

   I need a new apartment.

• This verb, when meaning "should" is impersonal and doesn't conjugate according to the person or number of the subject - these are reflected in the "да-конструкција" that follows.

• трѣ́ба (trě́ba) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic трѣба (trěba), from Proto-Slavic *terba. Displaced the Old East Slavic inherited form тереба (tereba).

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тре́ба • (tréba) f inan (genitive тре́бы, nominative plural тре́бы, genitive plural треб)

1. rite, ceremony (an irregular church ceremony performed at the request of a parishioner)

   Synonym: обря́д (obrjád)

• истреби́ть (istrebítʹ)
• тре́бование (trébovanije), потре́бность (potrébnostʹ)
• потре́бный (potrébnyj)
• тре́бовать (trébovatʹ)
• требник (trebnik)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “треба”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• IPA^(key): /trěːba/
• Hyphenation: тре‧ба

тре́ба f (Latin spelling tréba)

1. (slang) girl, chick

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:treba.

• тријѐба (Ijekavian)

тре́ба f (Latin spelling tréba)

1. need

   тр(иј)еба је, тр(иј)ебе је — it is necessary

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic трѣба (trěba, “rite, ceremony, necessity”), from Proto-Slavic *terba. Displaced the Old East Slavic inherited form тереба (tereba).

тре́ба • (tréba) f inan (genitive тре́би, nominative plural тре́би, genitive plural треб)

1. rite, ceremony (religious)

Same as etymology 1 or likely borrowed later from Polish trzeba.

тре́ба • (tréba)

1. used to express necessity: (one) must, (one) has to, (it is) necessary (impersonal, + dative)

   Synonyms: потрі́бно (potríbno), слід (slid)

   Мені́ тре́ба було́ це прийня́ти. ― Mení tréba buló ce pryjnjáty. ― I had to accept this.

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “треба”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka