zbijati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zbǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: zbi‧ja‧ti

Verb

zbíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling зби́јати)

  1. (transitive) to crowd together, jam, pile together, round up
  2. (transitive) to compress, condense, contract

Conjugation

Conjugation of zbijati
Infinitive: zbijati Present verbal adverb: zbíjajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zbíjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zbijam zbijaš zbija zbijamo zbijate zbijaju
Future Future I zbijat ću1
zbijaću 		zbijat ćeš1
zbijaćeš 		zbijat će1
zbijaće 		zbijat ćemo1
zbijaćemo 		zbijat ćete1
zbijaćete 		zbijat će1
zbijaće
Future II bȕdēm zbijao2 bȕdēš zbijao2 bȕdē zbijao2 bȕdēmo zbijali2 bȕdēte zbijali2 bȕdū zbijali2
Past Perfect zbijao sam2 zbijao si2 zbijao je2 zbijali smo2 zbijali ste2 zbijali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zbijao2 bȉo si zbijao2 bȉo je zbijao2 bíli smo zbijali2 bíli ste zbijali2 bíli su zbijali2
Imperfect zbijah zbijaše zbijaše zbijasmo zbijaste zbijahu
Conditional I zbijao bih2 zbijao bi2 zbijao bi2 zbijali bismo2 zbijali biste2 zbijali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zbijao2 bȉo bi zbijao2 bȉo bi zbijao2 bíli bismo zbijali2 bíli biste zbijali2 bíli bi zbijali2
Imperative — zbijaj — zbijajmo zbijajte —
Active past participle zbijao m / zbijala f / zbijalo n zbijali m / zbijale f / zbijala n
Passive past participle zbijan m / zbijana f / zbijano n zbijani m / zbijane f / zbijana 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

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