približiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pri- +‎ bližiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /priblǐːʒiti/
• Hyphenation: pri‧bli‧ži‧ti

Verb

priblížiti pf (Cyrillic spelling прибли́жити)

1. (transitive) to bring closer
2. (reflexive) to approach, come closer, near

Conjugation

Conjugation of približiti

Infinitive: približiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: priblížīvši		Verbal noun: približénje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		približim	približiš	približi	približimo	približite	približe
Future	Future I	približit ću1 približiću	približit ćeš1 približićeš	približit će1 približiće	približit ćemo1 približićemo	približit ćete1 približićete	približit će1 približiće
	Future II	bȕdēm približio2	bȕdēš približio2	bȕdē približio2	bȕdēmo približili2	bȕdēte približili2	bȕdū približili2
Past	Perfect	približio sam2	približio si2	približio je2	približili smo2	približili ste2	približili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam približio2	bȉo si približio2	bȉo je približio2	bíli smo približili2	bíli ste približili2	bíli su približili2
	Aorist	približih	približi	približi	približismo	približiste	približiše
Conditional I		približio bih2	približio bi2	približio bi2	približili bismo2	približili biste2	približili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih približio2	bȉo bi približio2	bȉo bi približio2	bíli bismo približili2	bíli biste približili2	bíli bi približili2
Imperative		—	približi	—	približimo	približite	—
Active past participle		približio m / približila f / približilo n			približili m / približile f / približila n
Passive past participle		približen m / približena f / približeno n			približeni m / približene f / približena 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

• približávati impf

Further reading

• “približiti” in Hrvatski jezični portal