pobiti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pobiti. Compare Old Czech pobiti.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /pǒbiti/
Hyphenation: po‧bi‧ti

Verb edit

pòbiti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀бити)

(transitive) to kill, slaughter (many individuals)
(transitive) to refute, disprove (prove something to be wrong or not the case)
(reflexive) to fight

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of pobiti

Infinitive: pobiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòbīvši		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		pobijem	pobiješ	pobije	pobijemo	pobijete	pobiju
Future	Future I	pobit ću¹ pobiću	pobit ćeš¹ pobićeš	pobit će¹ pobiće	pobit ćemo¹ pobićemo	pobit ćete¹ pobićete	pobit će¹ pobiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm pobio²	bȕdēš pobio²	bȕdē pobio²	bȕdēmo pobili²	bȕdēte pobili²	bȕdū pobili²
Past	Perfect	pobio sam²	pobio si²	pobio je²	pobili smo²	pobili ste²	pobili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam pobio²	bȉo si pobio²	bȉo je pobio²	bíli smo pobili²	bíli ste pobili²	bíli su pobili²
	Aorist	pobih	pobi	pobi	pobismo	pobiste	pobiše
Conditional I		pobio bih²	pobio bi²	pobio bi²	pobili bismo²	pobili biste²	pobili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih pobio²	bȉo bi pobio²	bȉo bi pobio²	bíli bismo pobili²	bíli biste pobili²	bíli bi pobili²
Imperative		—	pobij	—	pobijmo	pobijte	—
Active past participle		pobio m / pobila f / pobilo n			pobili m / pobile f / pobila n
Passive past participle		pobijen m / pobijena f / pobijeno n			pobijeni m / pobijene f / pobijena 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.

Related terms edit

pobíjati impf