grabiti

See also: grăbiți

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gràbiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrâbiti/
  • Hyphenation: gra‧bi‧ti

Verb

grȁbiti impf (Cyrillic spelling гра̏бити)

  1. (transitive) to grab, seize
  2. (intransitive) to hurry, speed, scud, rush

Conjugation

Conjugation of grabiti
infinitive grabiti
present verbal adverb grȁbēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun gràbljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present grabim grabiš grabi grabimo grabite grabe
future future I grabit ću1
grabiću
grabit ćeš1
grabićeš
grabit će1
grabiće
grabit ćemo1
grabićemo
grabit ćete1
grabićete
grabit ćē1
grabiće
future II bȕdēm grabio2 bȕdēš grabio2 bȕdē grabio2 bȕdēmo grabili2 bȕdēte grabili2 bȕdū grabili2
past perfect grabio sam2 grabio si2 grabio je2 grabili smo2 grabili ste2 grabili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam grabio2 bȉo si grabio2 bȉo je grabio2 bíli smo grabili2 bíli ste grabili2 bíli su grabili2
imperfect grabljah grabljaše grabljaše grabljasmo grabljaste grabljahu
conditional conditional I grabio bih2 grabio bi2 grabio bi2 grabili bismo2 grabili biste2 grabili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih grabio2 bȉo bi grabio2 bȉo bi grabio2 bíli bismo grabili2 bíli biste grabili2 bíli bi grabili2
imperative grabi grabimo grabite
active past participle grabio m / grabila f / grabilo n grabili m / grabile f / grabila n
passive past participle grabljen m / grabljena f / grabljeno n grabljeni m / grabljene f / grabljena 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

Further reading

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