треба

треба • (treba) impf

1. (intransitive) to be necessary, be advisable (corresponds to "should")
2. (intransitive) to need

   Ми треба нов стан.

   I need a new apartment.

• This verb, when meaning "should" is impersonal and doesn't conjugate according to the person or number of the subject - these are reflected in the "да-конструкција" that follows.

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic трѣба (trěba), from Proto-Slavic *terba. Displaced the Old East Slavic inherited form тереба (tereba).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrʲebə]

тре́ба • (tréba) f inan (genitive тре́бы, nominative plural тре́бы, genitive plural треб)

1. rite, ceremony (an irregular church ceremony performed at the request of a parishioner)

• обря́д (obrjád)

• тре́бование (trébovanije), потре́бность (potrébnostʹ)
• потре́бный (potrébnyj)
• тре́бовать (trébovatʹ)
• требник (trebnik)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “треба”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress

• IPA^(key): /trěːba/
• Hyphenation: тре‧ба

тре́ба f (Latin spelling tréba)

1. (slang) girl, chick

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:treba.

• (Ijekavian): тријѐба

тре́ба f (Latin spelling tréba)

1. need

   тр(иј)еба је, тр(иј)ебе је — it is necessary

From Proto-Slavic *terba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrɛbɐ]

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тре́ба • (tréba) f inan (genitive тре́би, nominative plural тре́би)

1. rite, ceremony (religious)

• треба in Bilodid I. K., editor (1970–1980) Slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy, Kiev: Naukova Dumka