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Belarusian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Polish trzeba. Compare Czech třeba, Ukrainian треба (treba). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *terba.
Predicative
трэ́ба • (tréba)
- used to express necessity: (one) must, (one) has to, (it is) necessary, (one) needs (to) (impersonal, + dative)
- ня трэ́ба было́ так рабі́ць ― nja tréba byló tak rabícʹ ― it wasn't necessary to do that
- што вам трэ́ба? ― što vam tréba? ― what do you need?
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic трѣба (trěba), from Proto-Slavic *terba. Displaced the Old East Slavic inherited form тереба (tereba). Compare Russian тре́ба (tréba).
Noun
трэ́ба • (tréba) f inan (genitive трэ́бы, nominative plural трэ́бы, genitive plural трэб)
- (church) rite, ceremony
Declension
Declension of трэ́ба (inan hard fem-form accent-a)
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
References
- “трэба” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org