gubiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gubiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡǔbiti/
  • Hyphenation: gu‧bi‧ti

Verb

gùbiti impf (Cyrillic spelling гу̀бити)

  1. (transitive) to lose, misplace
  2. (transitive) to lose (a battle, war, competition, hope, life, consciousness etc.)
  3. (intransitive) to lose (cards, race, elections etc.)
  4. (reflexive) to get lost, disappear

Conjugation

Conjugation of gubiti
Infinitive: gubiti Present verbal adverb: gùbēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: gùbljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present gubim gubiš gubi gubimo gubite gube
Future Future I gubit ću1
gubiću 		gubit ćeš1
gubićeš 		gubit će1
gubiće 		gubit ćemo1
gubićemo 		gubit ćete1
gubićete 		gubit će1
gubiće
Future II bȕdēm gubio2 bȕdēš gubio2 bȕdē gubio2 bȕdēmo gubili2 bȕdēte gubili2 bȕdū gubili2
Past Perfect gubio sam2 gubio si2 gubio je2 gubili smo2 gubili ste2 gubili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam gubio2 bȉo si gubio2 bȉo je gubio2 bíli smo gubili2 bíli ste gubili2 bíli su gubili2
Imperfect gubljah gubljaše gubljaše gubljasmo gubljaste gubljahu
Conditional I gubio bih2 gubio bi2 gubio bi2 gubili bismo2 gubili biste2 gubili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih gubio2 bȉo bi gubio2 bȉo bi gubio2 bíli bismo gubili2 bíli biste gubili2 bíli bi gubili2
Imperative — gubi — gubimo gubite —
Active past participle gubio m / gubila f / gubilo n gubili m / gubile f / gubila n
Passive past participle gubljen m / gubljena f / gubljeno n gubljeni m / gubljene f / gubljena 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.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “gubiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • “gubiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gubiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡubìːti/, /ɡubíːti/

Verb

gubīti impf

  1. to lose, to misplace

Inflection

-iti -im (AP c)
infinitive gubīti
1st singular gubím
infinitive gubīti gubȋt, gubȉt
supine —
verbal noun gubljénje
participle converb
present gubȅč —
past gubljȅn —
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular gubȋł gubíla gubȋlo
dual gubȋla gubȋli gubȋli
plural gubȋli gubȋle gubȋla
present imperative
1st singular gubím —
2nd singular gubíš gúbi
3rd singular gubí —
1st dual gubíva gubȋva
2nd dual gubíta gubȋta
3rd dual gubíta —
1st plural gubímo gubȋmo
2nd plural gubíte gubȋte
3rd plural gubíjo —

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “gubiti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
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