Talk:trebuie

"1. ([...] with subjunctives)"
Yes, usually that's the case, but there are cases where a clause is built using a participle (e.g. "trebuie mers" which loosely translates to "one needs to go" or "one has to go" or rather "there is a need for someone to go", it's a much more impersonal form). I'm not familiar with how these clarifications/annotations are used on wiktionary, but it should be clear that it is not obligatory to have a subjunctive clause following "trebuie". I don't know, maybe I'm misinterpreting what's stated. I'm not a dictionary expert. Maybe someone knows. Maybe there should be a separate entry for this form. Alzwded (talk) 16:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Ethymology
Does anyone know the Ethympology? It seems to be related to slavic words like trebati, not to a Latin word. Rasmusklump (talk) 22:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Reply to "Etymology"
Maybe a South Slavic language. In Bulgarian (my native lang), there's the word tryabva (трябва) which means exactly the same thing as Romanian: "it's necessary". It sounds similar, too. Trebati is in Serbo-Croatian, also a South Slavic language. So it's probably from one of the South Slav languages. Trebuie most likely isn't from a Latin term, but it's possible that it is.


 * Nobody said it did - trebuie comes from a trebui. --Robbie SWE (talk) 17:20, 24 May 2021 (UTC)