sabiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

sa- +‎ biti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sǎbiti/
Hyphenation: sa‧bi‧ti

Verb

sàbiti pf (Cyrillic spelling са̀бити)

(transitive) to compress, condense (reduce volume in a technical process, e.g. air, cans)
(transitive, reflexive) to crowd together, pile together, round up

Conjugation

Conjugation of sabiti

Infinitive: sabiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: sàbīvši		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		sabijem	sabiješ	sabije	sabijemo	sabijete	sabiju
Future	Future I	sabit ću¹ sabiću	sabit ćeš¹ sabićeš	sabit će¹ sabiće	sabit ćemo¹ sabićemo	sabit ćete¹ sabićete	sabit će¹ sabiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm sabio²	bȕdēš sabio²	bȕdē sabio²	bȕdēmo sabili²	bȕdēte sabili²	bȕdū sabili²
Past	Perfect	sabio sam²	sabio si²	sabio je²	sabili smo²	sabili ste²	sabili su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam sabio²	bio si sabio²	bio je sabio²	bili smo sabili²	bili ste sabili²	bili su sabili²
	Aorist	sabih	sabi	sabi	sabismo	sabiste	sabiše
Conditional I		sabio bih²	sabio bi²	sabio bi²	sabili bismo²	sabili biste²	sabili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih sabio²	bio bi sabio²	bio bi sabio²	bili bismo sabili²	bili biste sabili²	bili bi sabili²
Imperative		—	sabij	—	sabijmo	sabijte	—
Active past participle		sabio m / sabila f / sabilo n			sabili m / sabile f / sabila n
Passive past participle		sabijen m / sabijena f / sabijeno n			sabijeni m / sabijene f / sabijena 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 have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

sabíjati impf