sabijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sabǐːjati/
Hyphenation: sa‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

sabíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling саби́јати)

(transitive) to compress, condense (reduce volume in a technical process, e.g. air, cans)
(transitive, reflexive) to crowd together, pile together, round up

Conjugation

Conjugation of sabijati

Infinitive: sabijati		Present verbal adverb: sabíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sabíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sabijam	sabijaš	sabija	sabijamo	sabijate	sabijaju
Future	Future I	sabijat ću¹ sabijaću	sabijat ćeš¹ sabijaćeš	sabijat će¹ sabijaće	sabijat ćemo¹ sabijaćemo	sabijat ćete¹ sabijaćete	sabijat će¹ sabijaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm sabijao²	bȕdēš sabijao²	bȕdē sabijao²	bȕdēmo sabijali²	bȕdēte sabijali²	bȕdū sabijali²
Past	Perfect	sabijao sam²	sabijao si²	sabijao je²	sabijali smo²	sabijali ste²	sabijali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam sabijao²	bȉo si sabijao²	bȉo je sabijao²	bíli smo sabijali²	bíli ste sabijali²	bíli su sabijali²
	Imperfect	sabijah	sabijaše	sabijaše	sabijasmo	sabijaste	sabijahu
Conditional I		sabijao bih²	sabijao bi²	sabijao bi²	sabijali bismo²	sabijali biste²	sabijali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih sabijao²	bȉo bi sabijao²	bȉo bi sabijao²	bíli bismo sabijali²	bíli biste sabijali²	bíli bi sabijali²
Imperative		—	sabijaj	—	sabijajmo	sabijajte	—
Active past participle		sabijao m / sabijala f / sabijalo n			sabijali m / sabijale f / sabijala n
Passive past participle		sabijan m / sabijana f / sabijano n			sabijani m / sabijane f / sabijana 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

sàbiti pf