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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terbati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trêbati/
- Hyphenation: тре‧ба‧ти
Verb
тре̏бати impf (Latin spelling trȅbati)
- (transitive) to need, require
- Мислила сам да требаш помоћ. ― I thought you might need help.
- (impersonal) to be necessary, one should
- Требао бих о томе разговарати с оцем ― I should discuss it with my father
- Јеси ли сигуран да бисмо требали радити ово? ― Are you sure we should be doing this?
- Нисмо то требали учинити. ― We shouldn' t have done it.
- (impersonal) to be supposed to, to have to
- Само ми требаш в(ј)еровати. ― You just have to trust me on it.
- Тко га је требао зауставити? ― Who was supposed to stop him?
Conjugation
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.
Derived terms
References
- “требати”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025