zobati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobati, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (“to watch, show”).^[1] Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (“to watch, to look”), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look after, care for”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zǒbati/
Hyphenation: zo‧ba‧ti

Verb

zòbati impf (Cyrillic spelling зо̀бати)

(transitive) to peck

Conjugation

Conjugation of zobati

Infinitive: zobati		Present verbal adverb: zȍbljūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zòbānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zobljem	zoblješ	zoblje	zobljemo	zobljete	zoblju
Future	Future I	zobat ću¹ zobaću	zobat ćeš¹ zobaćeš	zobat će¹ zobaće	zobat ćemo¹ zobaćemo	zobat ćete¹ zobaćete	zobat će¹ zobaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm zobao²	bȕdēš zobao²	bȕdē zobao²	bȕdēmo zobali²	bȕdēte zobali²	bȕdū zobali²
Past	Perfect	zobao sam²	zobao si²	zobao je²	zobali smo²	zobali ste²	zobali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam zobao²	bȉo si zobao²	bȉo je zobao²	bíli smo zobali²	bíli ste zobali²	bíli su zobali²
	Imperfect	zobah	zobaše	zobaše	zobasmo	zobaste	zobahu
Conditional I		zobao bih²	zobao bi²	zobao bi²	zobali bismo²	zobali biste²	zobali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih zobao²	bȉo bi zobao²	bȉo bi zobao²	bíli bismo zobali²	bíli biste zobali²	bíli bi zobali²
Imperative		—	zoblji	—	zobljimo	zobljite	—
Active past participle		zobao m / zobala f / zobalo n			zobali m / zobale f / zobala n
Passive past participle		zoban m / zobana f / zobano n			zobani m / zobane f / zobana 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

pozòbati

References

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “349”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 349