drobiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *drobiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /drǒbiti/
Hyphenation: dro‧bi‧ti

Verb

dròbiti impf (Cyrillic spelling дро̀бити)

(transitive) to crush, crumble, crunch
to nag

Conjugation

Conjugation of drobiti

Infinitive: drobiti		Present verbal adverb: dròbēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dròbljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		drobim	drobiš	drobi	drobimo	drobite	drobe
Future	Future I	drobit ću¹ drobiću	drobit ćeš¹ drobićeš	drobit će¹ drobiće	drobit ćemo¹ drobićemo	drobit ćete¹ drobićete	drobit će¹ drobiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm drobio²	bȕdēš drobio²	bȕdē drobio²	bȕdēmo drobili²	bȕdēte drobili²	bȕdū drobili²
Past	Perfect	drobio sam²	drobio si²	drobio je²	drobili smo²	drobili ste²	drobili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam drobio²	bȉo si drobio²	bȉo je drobio²	bíli smo drobili²	bíli ste drobili²	bíli su drobili²
	Imperfect	drobljah	drobljaše	drobljaše	drobljasmo	drobljaste	drobljahu
Conditional I		drobio bih²	drobio bi²	drobio bi²	drobili bismo²	drobili biste²	drobili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih drobio²	bȉo bi drobio²	bȉo bi drobio²	bíli bismo drobili²	bíli biste drobili²	bíli bi drobili²
Imperative		—	drobi	—	drobimo	drobite	—
Active past participle		drobio m / drobila f / drobilo n			drobili m / drobile f / drobila n
Passive past participle		drobljen m / drobljena f / drobljeno n			drobljeni m / drobljene f / drobljena 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.

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