habati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gabati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xâbati/
  • Hyphenation: ha‧ba‧ti

Verb

hȁbati impf (Cyrillic spelling ха̏бати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to wear out, abrade
    habati čizme ― to wear out boots
    Gume na mom novom autu se brzo habaju. ― Tires on my new car wear out quickly

Conjugation

Conjugation of habati
Infinitive: habati Present verbal adverb: hȁbajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: hȁbānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present habam habaš haba habamo habate habaju
Future Future I habat ću1
habaću 		habat ćeš1
habaćeš 		habat će1
habaće 		habat ćemo1
habaćemo 		habat ćete1
habaćete 		habat će1
habaće
Future II bȕdēm habao2 bȕdēš habao2 bȕdē habao2 bȕdēmo habali2 bȕdēte habali2 bȕdū habali2
Past Perfect habao sam2 habao si2 habao je2 habali smo2 habali ste2 habali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam habao2 bȉo si habao2 bȉo je habao2 bíli smo habali2 bíli ste habali2 bíli su habali2
Imperfect habah habaše habaše habasmo habaste habahu
Conditional I habao bih2 habao bi2 habao bi2 habali bismo2 habali biste2 habali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih habao2 bȉo bi habao2 bȉo bi habao2 bíli bismo habali2 bíli biste habali2 bíli bi habali2
Imperative — habaj — habajmo habajte —
Active past participle habao m / habala f / habalo n habali m / habale f / habala n
Passive past participle haban m / habana f / habano n habani m / habane f / habana 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

References

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

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