zbijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zbǐːjati/
Hyphenation: zbi‧ja‧ti

Verb

zbíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling зби́јати)

(transitive) to crowd together, jam, pile together, round up
(transitive) to compress, condense, contract

Conjugation

Conjugation of zbijati

Infinitive: zbijati		Present verbal adverb: zbíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zbíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zbijam	zbijaš	zbija	zbijamo	zbijate	zbijaju
Future	Future I	zbijat ću¹ zbijaću	zbijat ćeš¹ zbijaćeš	zbijat će¹ zbijaće	zbijat ćemo¹ zbijaćemo	zbijat ćete¹ zbijaćete	zbijat će¹ zbijaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm zbijao²	bȕdēš zbijao²	bȕdē zbijao²	bȕdēmo zbijali²	bȕdēte zbijali²	bȕdū zbijali²
Past	Perfect	zbijao sam²	zbijao si²	zbijao je²	zbijali smo²	zbijali ste²	zbijali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam zbijao²	bȉo si zbijao²	bȉo je zbijao²	bíli smo zbijali²	bíli ste zbijali²	bíli su zbijali²
	Imperfect	zbijah	zbijaše	zbijaše	zbijasmo	zbijaste	zbijahu
Conditional I		zbijao bih²	zbijao bi²	zbijao bi²	zbijali bismo²	zbijali biste²	zbijali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih zbijao²	bȉo bi zbijao²	bȉo bi zbijao²	bíli bismo zbijali²	bíli biste zbijali²	bíli bi zbijali²
Imperative		—	zbijaj	—	zbijajmo	zbijajte	—
Active past participle		zbijao m / zbijala f / zbijalo n			zbijali m / zbijale f / zbijala n
Passive past participle		zbijan m / zbijana f / zbijano n			zbijani m / zbijane f / zbijana 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

zbȉti pf