prebijati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prebǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

prebíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling преби́јати)

  1. (transitive) to beat up
  2. (transitive) to settle (debt)
  3. (transitive) to break (into halves, pieces)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prebijati
Infinitive: prebijati Present verbal adverb: prebíjajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: prebíjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present prebijam prebijaš prebija prebijamo prebijate prebijaju
Future Future I prebijat ću1
prebijaću 		prebijat ćeš1
prebijaćeš 		prebijat će1
prebijaće 		prebijat ćemo1
prebijaćemo 		prebijat ćete1
prebijaćete 		prebijat će1
prebijaće
Future II bȕdēm prebijao2 bȕdēš prebijao2 bȕdē prebijao2 bȕdēmo prebijali2 bȕdēte prebijali2 bȕdū prebijali2
Past Perfect prebijao sam2 prebijao si2 prebijao je2 prebijali smo2 prebijali ste2 prebijali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam prebijao2 bȉo si prebijao2 bȉo je prebijao2 bíli smo prebijali2 bíli ste prebijali2 bíli su prebijali2
Imperfect prebijah prebijaše prebijaše prebijasmo prebijaste prebijahu
Conditional I prebijao bih2 prebijao bi2 prebijao bi2 prebijali bismo2 prebijali biste2 prebijali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih prebijao2 bȉo bi prebijao2 bȉo bi prebijao2 bíli bismo prebijali2 bíli biste prebijali2 bíli bi prebijali2
Imperative — prebijaj — prebijajmo prebijajte —
Active past participle prebijao m / prebijala f / prebijalo n prebijali m / prebijale f / prebijala n
Passive past participle prebijan m / prebijana f / prebijano n prebijani m / prebijane f / prebijana 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

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