služiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *služiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /slǔːʒiti/
Hyphenation: slu‧ži‧ti

Verb

slúžiti impf (Cyrillic spelling слу́жити)

(transitive) to serve (guests, purpose etc.)
(reflexive) to make use of, use
(reflexive) to help oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of služiti

Infinitive: služiti		Present verbal adverb: slúžēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: slúžēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		služim	služiš	služi	služimo	služite	služe
Future	Future I	služit ću¹ služiću	služit ćeš¹ služićeš	služit će¹ služiće	služit ćemo¹ služićemo	služit ćete¹ služićete	služit će¹ služiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm služio²	bȕdēš služio²	bȕdē služio²	bȕdēmo služili²	bȕdēte služili²	bȕdū služili²
Past	Perfect	služio sam²	služio si²	služio je²	služili smo²	služili ste²	služili su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam služio²	bio si služio²	bio je služio²	bili smo služili²	bili ste služili²	bili su služili²
	Imperfect	služah	služaše	služaše	služasmo	služaste	služahu
Conditional I		služio bih²	služio bi²	služio bi²	služili bismo²	služili biste²	služili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih služio²	bio bi služio²	bio bi služio²	bili bismo služili²	bili biste služili²	bili bi služili²
Imperative		—	služi	—	služimo	služite	—
Active past participle		služio m / služila f / služilo n			služili m / služile f / služila n
Passive past participle		služen m / služena f / služeno n			služeni m / služene f / služena 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.

Derived terms

islúžiti
odslúžiti
zaslužiti

opslúžiti
prislúžiti
poslužiti

Related terms

slùžba