zbivati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ bivati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zbǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: zbi‧va‧ti

Verb

zbívati impf (Cyrillic spelling зби́вати)

  1. (reflexive) to happen, occur

Conjugation

Conjugation of zbivati
Infinitive: zbivati Present verbal adverb: zbívajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zbívānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zbivam zbivaš zbiva zbivamo zbivate zbivaju
Future Future I zbivat ću1
zbivaću 		zbivat ćeš1
zbivaćeš 		zbivat će1
zbivaće 		zbivat ćemo1
zbivaćemo 		zbivat ćete1
zbivaćete 		zbivat će1
zbivaće
Future II bȕdēm zbivao2 bȕdēš zbivao2 bȕdē zbivao2 bȕdēmo zbivali2 bȕdēte zbivali2 bȕdū zbivali2
Past Perfect zbivao sam2 zbivao si2 zbivao je2 zbivali smo2 zbivali ste2 zbivali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zbivao2 bȉo si zbivao2 bȉo je zbivao2 bíli smo zbivali2 bíli ste zbivali2 bíli su zbivali2
Imperfect zbivah zbivaše zbivaše zbivasmo zbivaste zbivahu
Conditional I zbivao bih2 zbivao bi2 zbivao bi2 zbivali bismo2 zbivali biste2 zbivali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zbivao2 bȉo bi zbivao2 bȉo bi zbivao2 bíli bismo zbivali2 bíli biste zbivali2 bíli bi zbivali2
Imperative — zbivaj — zbivajmo zbivajte —
Active past participle zbivao m / zbivala f / zbivalo n zbivali m / zbivale f / zbivala 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

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