zabijati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zabijati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zabǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

zabíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling заби́јати)

  1. (transitive) to hammer in, pound in, drive in
  2. (transitive) to score (a goal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zabijati
Infinitive: zabijati Present verbal adverb: zabíjajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zabíjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zabijam zabijaš zabija zabijamo zabijate zabijaju
Future Future I zabijat ću1
zabijaću 		zabijat ćeš1
zabijaćeš 		zabijat će1
zabijaće 		zabijat ćemo1
zabijaćemo 		zabijat ćete1
zabijaćete 		zabijat će1
zabijaće
Future II bȕdēm zabijao2 bȕdēš zabijao2 bȕdē zabijao2 bȕdēmo zabijali2 bȕdēte zabijali2 bȕdū zabijali2
Past Perfect zabijao sam2 zabijao si2 zabijao je2 zabijali smo2 zabijali ste2 zabijali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zabijao2 bȉo si zabijao2 bȉo je zabijao2 bíli smo zabijali2 bíli ste zabijali2 bíli su zabijali2
Imperfect zabijah zabijaše zabijaše zabijasmo zabijaste zabijahu
Conditional I zabijao bih2 zabijao bi2 zabijao bi2 zabijali bismo2 zabijali biste2 zabijali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zabijao2 bȉo bi zabijao2 bȉo bi zabijao2 bíli bismo zabijali2 bíli biste zabijali2 bíli bi zabijali2
Imperative — zabijaj — zabijajmo zabijajte —
Active past participle zabijao m / zabijala f / zabijalo n zabijali m / zabijale f / zabijala n
Passive past participle zabijan m / zabijana f / zabijano n zabijani m / zabijane f / zabijana 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

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