dangubiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

dan +‎ gubiti = lit. "to lose the day"

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dǎnɡubiti/
  • Hyphenation: dan‧gu‧bi‧ti

Verb

dàngubiti impf (Cyrillic spelling да̀нгубити)

  1. (intransitive) to waste time
  2. (intransitive) to loaf, idle, loiter, to slack off

Conjugation

Conjugation of dangubiti
infinitive dangubiti
present verbal adverb dàngubēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun dàngubljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present dangubim dangubiš dangubi dangubimo dangubite dangube
future future I dangubit ću1
dangubiću
dangubit ćeš1
dangubićeš
dangubit će1
dangubiće
dangubit ćemo1
dangubićemo
dangubit ćete1
dangubićete
dangubit ćē1
dangubiće
future II bȕdēm dangubio2 bȕdēš dangubio2 bȕdē dangubio2 bȕdēmo dangubili2 bȕdēte dangubili2 bȕdū dangubili2
past perfect dangubio sam2 dangubio si2 dangubio je2 dangubili smo2 dangubili ste2 dangubili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam dangubio2 bȉo si dangubio2 bȉo je dangubio2 bíli smo dangubili2 bíli ste dangubili2 bíli su dangubili2
imperfect dangubljah dangubljaše dangubljaše dangubljasmo dangubljaste dangubljahu
conditional conditional I dangubio bih2 dangubio bi2 dangubio bi2 dangubili bismo2 dangubili biste2 dangubili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih dangubio2 bȉo bi dangubio2 bȉo bi dangubio2 bíli bismo dangubili2 bíli biste dangubili2 bíli bi dangubili2
imperative dangubi dangubimo dangubite
active past participle dangubio m / dangubila f / dangubilo n dangubili m / dangubile f / dangubila 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.

Further reading

  • dangubiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025