približiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pri- +‎ bližiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /priblǐːʒiti/
Hyphenation: pri‧bli‧ži‧ti

Verb

priblížiti pf (Cyrillic spelling прибли́жити)

(transitive) to bring closer
(reflexive) to approach, come closer, near

Conjugation

Conjugation of *približiti*
		singular			plural
infinitive		približiti
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		priblížīvši
verbal noun		približénje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		približim	približiš	približi	približimo	približite	približe
future	future I	približit ću¹ približiću	približit ćeš¹ približićeš	približit će¹ približiće	približit ćemo¹ približićemo	približit ćete¹ približićete	približit ćē¹ približiće
future	future II	bȕdēm približio²	bȕdēš približio²	bȕdē približio²	bȕdēmo približili²	bȕdēte približili²	bȕdū približili²
past	perfect	približio sam²	približio si²	približio je²	približili smo²	približili ste²	približili su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam približio²	bȉo si približio²	bȉo je približio²	bíli smo približili²	bíli ste približili²	bíli su približili²
	aorist	približih	približi	približi	približismo	približiste	približiše
conditional	conditional I	približio bih²	približio bi²	približio bi²	približili bismo²	približili biste²	približili bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih približio²	bȉo bi približio²	bȉo bi približio²	bíli bismo približili²	bíli biste približili²	bíli bi približili²
imperative		—	približi	—	približimo	približite	—
active past participle		približio m / približila f / približilo n			približili m / približile f / približila n
passive past participle		približen m / približena f / približeno n			približeni m / približene f / približena 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.

Related terms

približávati impf