spasiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spǎːsiti/
  • Hyphenation: spa‧si‧ti

Verb

spásiti pf (Cyrillic spelling спа́сити)

  1. (transitive, Croatia, reflexive) to save, salvage (to help someone to survive)
  2. (transitive, Croatia, reflexive) to rescue

Conjugation

Conjugation of spasiti
Infinitive: spasiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: spásīvši Verbal noun: —
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present spasim spasiš spasi spasimo spasite spase
Future Future I spasit ću1
spasiću 		spasit ćeš1
spasićeš 		spasit će1
spasiće 		spasit ćemo1
spasićemo 		spasit ćete1
spasićete 		spasit će1
spasiće
Future II bȕdēm spasio2 bȕdēš spasio2 bȕdē spasio2 bȕdēmo spasili2 bȕdēte spasili2 bȕdū spasili2
Past Perfect spasio sam2 spasio si2 spasio je2 spasili smo2 spasili ste2 spasili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam spasio2 bȉo si spasio2 bȉo je spasio2 bíli smo spasili2 bíli ste spasili2 bíli su spasili2
Aorist spasih spasi spasi spasismo spasiste spasiše
Conditional I spasio bih2 spasio bi2 spasio bi2 spasili bismo2 spasili biste2 spasili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih spasio2 bȉo bi spasio2 bȉo bi spasio2 bíli bismo spasili2 bíli biste spasili2 bíli bi spasili2
Imperative — spasi — spasimo spasite —
Active past participle spasio m / spasila f / spasilo n spasili m / spasile f / spasila n
Passive past participle spašen m / spašena f / spašeno n spašeni m / spašene f / spašena 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.

References

  • “spasiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • “spasiti”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume V, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 925
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