treba

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See also: Treba, třeba, and třěba

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trěːba/
  • Hyphenation: tre‧ba

Noun

tréba f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ба)

  1. (slang) girl, chick
Declension
Quotations

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terba.

Alternative forms

Noun

tréba f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ба) (Ekavian, Ijekavian)

  1. 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

  1. 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