rabiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orbiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rǎːbiti/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧bi‧ti

Verb

rábiti impf (Cyrillic spelling ра́бити)

  1. (transitive) to use

Conjugation

Conjugation of rabiti
infinitive rabiti
present verbal adverb rábēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun rábljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present rabim rabiš rabi rabimo rabite rabe
future future I rabit ću1
rabiću
rabit ćeš1
rabićeš
rabit će1
rabiće
rabit ćemo1
rabićemo
rabit ćete1
rabićete
rabit ćē1
rabiće
future II bȕdēm rabio2 bȕdēš rabio2 bȕdē rabio2 bȕdēmo rabili2 bȕdēte rabili2 bȕdū rabili2
past perfect rabio sam2 rabio si2 rabio je2 rabili smo2 rabili ste2 rabili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam rabio2 bȉo si rabio2 bȉo je rabio2 bíli smo rabili2 bíli ste rabili2 bíli su rabili2
imperfect rabljah rabljaše rabljaše rabljasmo rabljaste rabljahu
conditional conditional I rabio bih2 rabio bi2 rabio bi2 rabili bismo2 rabili biste2 rabili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih rabio2 bȉo bi rabio2 bȉo bi rabio2 bíli bismo rabili2 bíli biste rabili2 bíli bi rabili2
imperative rabi rabimo rabite
active past participle rabio m / rabila f / rabilo n rabili m / rabile f / rabila n
passive past participle rabljen m / rabljena f / rabljeno n rabljeni m / rabljene f / rabljena 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

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orbiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rabìːti/, /rabíːti/, /ràːbiti/

Verb

rabīti or rábiti impf

  1. to use
  2. to need

Conjugation

-iti -im (AP b)
infinitive rabīti, rábiti
1st singular rábim
infinitive rabīti, rábiti rabit
supine rábit
verbal noun rábljenje
participle converb
present rabȅč
past rábljen
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular rábił rabȋla rabílo
dual rabíla rabíli rabíli
plural rabíli rabíle rabíla
present imperative
1st singular rábim
2nd singular rábiš rábi
3rd singular rábi
1st dual rábiva rábiva, rabȋva
2nd dual rábita rábita, rabȋta
3rd dual rábita
1st plural rábimo rábimo, rabȋmo
2nd plural rábite rábite, rabȋte
3rd plural rábijo

Derived terms

  • izrabīti
  • obrabīti
  • porabīti

Further reading

  • rabiti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • rabiti”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references