baviti
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *baviti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bâʋiti/
- Hyphenation: ba‧vi‧ti
Verb
bȁviti impf (Cyrillic spelling ба̏вити)
- (reflexive, with instrumental) to do,attend, engage in, go in for, occupy oneself with
- Bavi se jogom. ― He goes in for yoga.
- Čim se bavite? ― What do you do (for a job)?
- Bavim se prodajom knjiga. ― I sell books. (as a job)
- (reflexive, with s + instrumental) to deal with
Conjugation
Conjugation of baviti
| Infinitive: baviti | Present verbal adverb: bȁvēći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: bȁvljēnje | ||||
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | bavim | baviš | bavi | bavimo | bavite | bave | |
| Future | Future I | bavit ću1 baviću | bavit ćeš1 bavićeš | bavit će1 baviće | bavit ćemo1 bavićemo | bavit ćete1 bavićete | bavit će1 baviće |
| Future II | budem bavio2 | budeš bavio2 | bude bavio2 | budemo bavili2 | budete bavili2 | budu bavili2 | |
| Past | Perfect | bavio sam2 | bavio si2 | bavio je2 | bavili smo2 | bavili ste2 | bavili su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bio sam bavio2 | bio si bavio2 | bio je bavio2 | bili smo bavili2 | bili ste bavili2 | bili su bavili2 | |
| Imperfect | bavljah | bavljaše | bavljaše | bavljasmo | bavljaste | bavljahu | |
| Conditional I | bavio bih2 | bavio bi2 | bavio bi2 | bavili bismo2 | bavili biste2 | bavili bi2 | |
| Conditional II | bio bih bavio2 | bio bi bavio2 | bio bi bavio2 | bili bismo bavili2 | bili biste bavili2 | bili bi bavili2 | |
| Imperative | — | bavi | — | bavimo | bavite | — | |
| Active past participle | bavio m / bavila f / bavilo n | bavili m / bavile f / bavila 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. * 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
- dòbaviti
- ìzbaviti
- nàbaviti
- òbaviti
- prìbaviti
References
- “baviti” in Hrvatski jezični portal