pribijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pribǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

pribíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling приби́јати)

  1. (transitive) to nail (fix using a nail)
  2. (reflexive) to cuddle up closely, nestle up to sth, snuggle up to sth

Conjugation

Conjugation of pribijati
infinitive pribijati
present verbal adverb pribíjajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pribíjānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pribijam pribijaš pribija pribijamo pribijate pribijaju
future future I pribijat ću1
pribijaću
pribijat ćeš1
pribijaćeš
pribijat će1
pribijaće
pribijat ćemo1
pribijaćemo
pribijat ćete1
pribijaćete
pribijat ćē1
pribijaće
future II bȕdēm pribijao2 bȕdēš pribijao2 bȕdē pribijao2 bȕdēmo pribijali2 bȕdēte pribijali2 bȕdū pribijali2
past perfect pribijao sam2 pribijao si2 pribijao je2 pribijali smo2 pribijali ste2 pribijali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pribijao2 bȉo si pribijao2 bȉo je pribijao2 bíli smo pribijali2 bíli ste pribijali2 bíli su pribijali2
imperfect pribijah pribijaše pribijaše pribijasmo pribijaste pribijahu
conditional conditional I pribijao bih2 pribijao bi2 pribijao bi2 pribijali bismo2 pribijali biste2 pribijali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pribijao2 bȉo bi pribijao2 bȉo bi pribijao2 bíli bismo pribijali2 bíli biste pribijali2 bíli bi pribijali2
imperative pribijaj pribijajmo pribijajte
active past participle pribijao m / pribijala f / pribijalo n pribijali m / pribijale f / pribijala n
passive past participle pribijan m / pribijana f / pribijano n pribijani m / pribijane f / pribijana 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

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