sabiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sa- +‎ biti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sǎbiti/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧bi‧ti

Verb

sàbiti pf (Cyrillic spelling са̀бити)

  1. (transitive) to compress, condense (reduce volume in a technical process, e.g. air, cans)
  2. (transitive, reflexive) to crowd together, pile together, round up

Conjugation

Conjugation of sabiti
infinitive sabiti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb sàbīvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present sabijem sabiješ sabije sabijemo sabijete sabiju
future future I sabit ću1
sabiću
sabit ćeš1
sabićeš
sabit će1
sabiće
sabit ćemo1
sabićemo
sabit ćete1
sabićete
sabit ćē1
sabiće
future II bȕdēm sabio2 bȕdēš sabio2 bȕdē sabio2 bȕdēmo sabili2 bȕdēte sabili2 bȕdū sabili2
past perfect sabio sam2 sabio si2 sabio je2 sabili smo2 sabili ste2 sabili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam sabio2 bȉo si sabio2 bȉo je sabio2 bíli smo sabili2 bíli ste sabili2 bíli su sabili2
aorist sabih sabi sabi sabismo sabiste sabiše
conditional conditional I sabio bih2 sabio bi2 sabio bi2 sabili bismo2 sabili biste2 sabili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih sabio2 bȉo bi sabio2 bȉo bi sabio2 bíli bismo sabili2 bíli biste sabili2 bíli bi sabili2
imperative sabij sabijmo sabijte
active past participle sabio m / sabila f / sabilo n sabili m / sabile f / sabila n
passive past participle sabijen m / sabijena f / sabijeno n sabijeni m / sabijene f / sabijena 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

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