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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trěːba/
- Hyphenation: tre‧ba
Noun
tréba f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ба)
- (slang) girl, chick
Declension
Quotations
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terba.
Noun
tréba f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ба) (Ekavian, Ijekavian)
- need
- tr(ij)eba je, tr(ij)ebe je — it is necessary
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terba. Cognates include Czech třeba, Russian тре́ба (tréba), Polish trzeba.
Pronunciation
Adverb
treba
- be necessary, be needed
Further reading
- “treba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024