paziti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *paziti (“to heed”). Cognate with Bulgarian пазя (pazja, “to safeguard”), Slovene paziti (“protect”), Ukrainian пазити (pazyty, “to look after”). Non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse spakr (“wise”), speki (“wisdom”), spekja (“to soothe”). Compare Latin speciō (“to watch”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pâziti/
Hyphenation: pa‧zi‧ti

Verb

pȁziti impf (Cyrillic spelling па̏зити)

(intransitive) to beware, watch out, be careful
(intransitive, reflexive) to take care of (+ na (“on”))
(intransitive) to keep an eye on, watch (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of *paziti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		paziti
present verbal adverb		pȁzēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		pȁžēnje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		pazim	paziš	pazi	pazimo	pazite	paze
future	future I	pazit ću¹ paziću	pazit ćeš¹ pazićeš	pazit će¹ paziće	pazit ćemo¹ pazićemo	pazit ćete¹ pazićete	pazit ćē¹ paziće
future	future II	bȕdēm pazio²	bȕdēš pazio²	bȕdē pazio²	bȕdēmo pazili²	bȕdēte pazili²	bȕdū pazili²
past	perfect	pazio sam²	pazio si²	pazio je²	pazili smo²	pazili ste²	pazili su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam pazio²	bȉo si pazio²	bȉo je pazio²	bíli smo pazili²	bíli ste pazili²	bíli su pazili²
	imperfect	pažah	pažaše	pažaše	pažasmo	pažaste	pažahu
conditional	conditional I	pazio bih²	pazio bi²	pazio bi²	pazili bismo²	pazili biste²	pazili bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih pazio²	bȉo bi pazio²	bȉo bi pazio²	bíli bismo pazili²	bíli biste pazili²	bíli bi pazili²
imperative		—	pazi	—	pazimo	pazite	—
active past participle		pazio m / pazila f / pazilo n			pazili m / pazile f / pazila n
passive past participle		pažen m / pažena f / paženo n			paženi m / pažene f / pažena 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.