služiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služìti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slǔːʒiti/
  • Hyphenation: slu‧ži‧ti

Verb

slúžiti impf (Cyrillic spelling слу́жити)

  1. (transitive) to serve (guests, purpose etc.)
  2. (reflexive) to make use of, use
  3. (reflexive) to help oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of služiti
infinitive služiti
present verbal adverb slúžēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun slúžēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present služim služiš služi služimo služite služe
future future I služit ću1
služiću
služit ćeš1
služićeš
služit će1
služiće
služit ćemo1
služićemo
služit ćete1
služićete
služit ćē1
služiće
future II bȕdēm služio2 bȕdēš služio2 bȕdē služio2 bȕdēmo služili2 bȕdēte služili2 bȕdū služili2
past perfect služio sam2 služio si2 služio je2 služili smo2 služili ste2 služili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam služio2 bȉo si služio2 bȉo je služio2 bíli smo služili2 bíli ste služili2 bíli su služili2
imperfect služah služaše služaše služasmo služaste služahu
conditional conditional I služio bih2 služio bi2 služio bi2 služili bismo2 služili biste2 služili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih služio2 bȉo bi služio2 bȉo bi služio2 bíli bismo služili2 bíli biste služili2 bíli bi služili2
imperative služi služimo služite
active past participle služio m / služila f / služilo n služili m / služile f / služila n
passive past participle služen m / služena f / služeno n služeni m / služene f / služena 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

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