trebati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Croatia) tribati
(Croatia) trjebati

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *terbati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /trêbati/
Hyphenation: tre‧ba‧ti

Verb

trȅbati impf (Cyrillic spelling тре̏бати)

(transitive) to need, require
Mislila sam da trebaš pomoć. ― I thought you might need help.
(impersonal) to be necessary, should
Trebao bih o tome razgovarati s ocem ― I should discuss it with my father

Jesi li siguran da bismo trebali raditi ovo? ― Are you sure we should be doing this?

Nismo to trebali učiniti. ― We shouldn' t have done it.
(impersonal) to be supposed to, to have to
Samo mi trebaš v(j)erovati. ― You just have to trust me on it.

Tko ga je trebao zaustaviti? ― Who was supposed to stop him?

Conjugation

Conjugation of trebati

Infinitive: trebati		Present verbal adverb: trȅbajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trȅbānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		trebam	trebaš	treba	trebamo	trebate	trebaju
Future	Future I	trebat ću¹ trebaću	trebat ćeš¹ trebaćeš	trebat će¹ trebaće	trebat ćemo¹ trebaćemo	trebat ćete¹ trebaćete	trebat će¹ trebaće
Future	Future II	budem trebao²	budeš trebao²	bude trebao²	budemo trebali²	budete trebali²	budu trebali²
Past	Perfect	trebao sam²	trebao si²	trebao je²	trebali smo²	trebali ste²	trebali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam trebao²	bio si trebao²	bio je trebao²	bili smo trebali²	bili ste trebali²	bili su trebali²
	Imperfect	trebah	trebaše	trebaše	trebasmo	trebaste	trebahu
Conditional I		trebao bih²	trebao bi²	trebao bi²	trebali bismo²	trebali biste²	trebali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih trebao²	bio bi trebao²	bio bi trebao²	bili bismo trebali²	bili biste trebali²	bili bi trebali²
Imperative		—	trebaj	—	trebajmo	trebajte	—
Active past participle		trebao m / trebala f / trebalo n			trebali m / trebale f / trebala n
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. * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

potreba
upotreba
ùstrebati
zàtrebati

References

“trebati” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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