odbijati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /odbǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: od‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

odbíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling одби́јати)

  1. (transitive) to refuse, decline
  2. (transitive) to deflect, repulse, fend off, ward off
  3. (transitive) to bounce off, ricochet, rebound
  4. (transitive) to knock off
  5. (transitive) to deduct, subtract, dock
  6. (reflexive) to reflect

Conjugation

Conjugation of odbijati
Infinitive: odbijati Present verbal adverb: odbíjajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: odbíjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present odbijam odbijaš odbija odbijamo odbijate odbijaju
Future Future I odbijat ću1
odbijaću 		odbijat ćeš1
odbijaćeš 		odbijat će1
odbijaće 		odbijat ćemo1
odbijaćemo 		odbijat ćete1
odbijaćete 		odbijat će1
odbijaće
Future II bȕdēm odbijao2 bȕdēš odbijao2 bȕdē odbijao2 bȕdēmo odbijali2 bȕdēte odbijali2 bȕdū odbijali2
Past Perfect odbijao sam2 odbijao si2 odbijao je2 odbijali smo2 odbijali ste2 odbijali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam odbijao2 bȉo si odbijao2 bȉo je odbijao2 bíli smo odbijali2 bíli ste odbijali2 bíli su odbijali2
Imperfect odbijah odbijaše odbijaše odbijasmo odbijaste odbijahu
Conditional I odbijao bih2 odbijao bi2 odbijao bi2 odbijali bismo2 odbijali biste2 odbijali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih odbijao2 bȉo bi odbijao2 bȉo bi odbijao2 bíli bismo odbijali2 bíli biste odbijali2 bíli bi odbijali2
Imperative — odbijaj — odbijajmo odbijajte —
Active past participle odbijao m / odbijala f / odbijalo n odbijali m / odbijale f / odbijala n
Passive past participle odbijan m / odbijana f / odbijano n odbijani m / odbijane f / odbijana 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.

Further reading

  • “odbijati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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