trebiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Ijekavian): trijébiti

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *terbiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /trěːbiti/
Hyphenation: tre‧bi‧ti

Verb

trébiti impf (Cyrillic spelling тре́бити)

(transitive) to shell, husk
(transitive, figuratively) to clean impure or useless parts of something

Conjugation

Conjugation of trebiti

Infinitive: trebiti		Present verbal adverb: trébēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: trébljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		trebim	trebiš	trebi	trebimo	trebite	trebe
Future	Future I	trebit ću¹ trebiću	trebit ćeš¹ trebićeš	trebit će¹ trebiće	trebit ćemo¹ trebićemo	trebit ćete¹ trebićete	trebit će¹ trebiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm trebio²	bȕdēš trebio²	bȕdē trebio²	bȕdēmo trebili²	bȕdēte trebili²	bȕdū trebili²
Past	Perfect	trebio sam²	trebio si²	trebio je²	trebili smo²	trebili ste²	trebili su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam trebio²	bio si trebio²	bio je trebio²	bili smo trebili²	bili ste trebili²	bili su trebili²
	Imperfect	trebljah	trebljaše	trebljaše	trebljasmo	trebljaste	trebljahu
Conditional I		trebio bih²	trebio bi²	trebio bi²	trebili bismo²	trebili biste²	trebili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih trebio²	bio bi trebio²	bio bi trebio²	bili bismo trebili²	bili biste trebili²	bili bi trebili²
Imperative		—	trebi	—	trebimo	trebite	—
Active past participle		trebio m / trebila f / trebilo n			trebili m / trebile f / trebila n
Passive past participle		trebljen m / trebljena f / trebljeno n			trebljeni m / trebljene f / trebljena 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. 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 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

istrébiti
pretrébiti

otrébiti