tribati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• trebati (Ijekavian and Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *terbati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tribati/
• Hyphenation: tri‧ba‧ti

Verb

tribati impf (Cyrillic spelling трибати)

1. (transitive, Ikavian) to need, require
2. (impersonal, Ikavian) to be necessary, one should
3. (impersonal, Ikavian) to be supposed to, to have to

Conjugation

Conjugation of tribati

Infinitive: tribati		Present verbal adverb: tribajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: tribānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		tribam	tribaš	triba	tribamo	tribate	tribaju
Future	Future I	tribat ću1 tribaću	tribat ćeš1 tribaćeš	tribat će1 tribaće	tribat ćemo1 tribaćemo	tribat ćete1 tribaćete	tribat će1 tribaće
	Future II	bȕdēm tribao2	bȕdēš tribao2	bȕdē tribao2	bȕdēmo tribali2	bȕdēte tribali2	bȕdū tribali2
Past	Perfect	tribao sam2	tribao si2	tribao je2	tribali smo2	tribali ste2	tribali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam tribao2	bȉo si tribao2	bȉo je tribao2	bíli smo tribali2	bíli ste tribali2	bíli su tribali2
	Imperfect	tribah	tribaše	tribaše	tribasmo	tribaste	tribahu
Conditional I		tribao bih2	tribao bi2	tribao bi2	tribali bismo2	tribali biste2	tribali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih tribao2	bȉo bi tribao2	bȉo bi tribao2	bíli bismo tribali2	bíli biste tribali2	bíli bi tribali2
Imperative		—	tribaj	—	tribajmo	tribajte	—
Active past participle		tribao m / tribala f / tribalo n			tribali m / tribale f / tribala 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 were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.