upotrijebiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /upotrjěːbiti/
  • Hyphenation: u‧po‧trije‧bi‧ti

Verb

upotrijébiti pf (Cyrillic spelling употрије́бити)

  1. (transitive) to use, utilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of upotrijebiti
Infinitive: upotrijebiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: upotrijébīvši 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 upotrijebim upotrijebiš upotrijebi upotrijebimo upotrijebite upotrijebe
Future Future I upotrijebit ću1
upotrijebiću 		upotrijebit ćeš1
upotrijebićeš 		upotrijebit će1
upotrijebiće 		upotrijebit ćemo1
upotrijebićemo 		upotrijebit ćete1
upotrijebićete 		upotrijebit će1
upotrijebiće
Future II bȕdēm upotrijebio2 bȕdēš upotrijebio2 bȕdē upotrijebio2 bȕdēmo upotrijebili2 bȕdēte upotrijebili2 bȕdū upotrijebili2
Past Perfect upotrijebio sam2 upotrijebio si2 upotrijebio je2 upotrijebili smo2 upotrijebili ste2 upotrijebili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam upotrijebio2 bȉo si upotrijebio2 bȉo je upotrijebio2 bíli smo upotrijebili2 bíli ste upotrijebili2 bíli su upotrijebili2
Aorist upotrijebih upotrijebi upotrijebi upotrijebismo upotrijebiste upotrijebiše
Conditional I upotrijebio bih2 upotrijebio bi2 upotrijebio bi2 upotrijebili bismo2 upotrijebili biste2 upotrijebili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih upotrijebio2 bȉo bi upotrijebio2 bȉo bi upotrijebio2 bíli bismo upotrijebili2 bíli biste upotrijebili2 bíli bi upotrijebili2
Imperative — upotrijebi — upotrijebimo upotrijebite —
Active past participle upotrijebio m / upotrijebila f / upotrijebilo n upotrijebili m / upotrijebile f / upotrijebila n
Passive past participle upotrijebljen m / upotrijebljena f / upotrijebljeno n upotrijebljeni m / upotrijebljene f / upotrijebljena 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

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