Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

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

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /trijěba/
  • Hyphenation: три‧је‧ба

Noun edit

тријѐба f (Latin spelling trijèba)

  1. (Ijekavian) need
    тр(иј)еба је, тр(иј)ебе је — it is necessary