treba

See also: Treba, třeba, and třěba

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

tréba f (Cyrillic spelling тре́ба)

1. (slang) girl, chick

Declension

Declension of treba

	singular	plural
nominative	treba	trebe
genitive	trebe	treba
dative	trebi	trebama
accusative	trebu	trebe
vocative	trebo	trebe
locative	trebi	trebama
instrumental	trebama	trebama

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:treba.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terba.

Alternative forms

• trijèba (Ijekavian)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtreba]

Adverb

treba

1. be necessary, be needed

Related terms

• potrebný

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, 2003–2025