habati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gabati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xâbati/
Hyphenation: ha‧ba‧ti

Verb

hȁbati impf (Cyrillic spelling ха̏бати)

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to wear out, abrade
habati čizme ― to wear out boots

Gume na mom novom autu se brzo habaju. ― Tires on my new car wear out quickly

Conjugation

Conjugation of habati

Infinitive: habati		Present verbal adverb: hȁbajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: hȁbānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		habam	habaš	haba	habamo	habate	habaju
Future	Future I	habat ću¹ habaću	habat ćeš¹ habaćeš	habat će¹ habaće	habat ćemo¹ habaćemo	habat ćete¹ habaćete	habat će¹ habaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm habao²	bȕdēš habao²	bȕdē habao²	bȕdēmo habali²	bȕdēte habali²	bȕdū habali²
Past	Perfect	habao sam²	habao si²	habao je²	habali smo²	habali ste²	habali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam habao²	bȉo si habao²	bȉo je habao²	bíli smo habali²	bíli ste habali²	bíli su habali²
	Imperfect	habah	habaše	habaše	habasmo	habaste	habahu
Conditional I		habao bih²	habao bi²	habao bi²	habali bismo²	habali biste²	habali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih habao²	bȉo bi habao²	bȉo bi habao²	bíli bismo habali²	bíli biste habali²	bíli bi habali²
Imperative		—	habaj	—	habajmo	habajte	—
Active past participle		habao m / habala f / habalo n			habali m / habale f / habala n
Passive past participle		haban m / habana f / habano n			habani m / habane f / habana 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.

Derived terms

References

“habati” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Anagrams

bahati