trubiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫbiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trǔːbiti/
  • Hyphenation: tru‧bi‧ti

Verb

trúbiti impf (Cyrillic spelling тру́бити)

  1. (intransitive) to blow a bugle/trumpet
  2. (intransitive) to honk (sound a horn of a car)

Conjugation

Conjugation of trubiti
infinitive trubiti
present verbal adverb trúbēći
past verbal adverb trubivši
verbal noun trúbljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present trubim trubiš trubi trubimo trubite trube
future future I trubit ću1
trubiću
trubit ćeš1
trubićeš
trubit će1
trubiće
trubit ćemo1
trubićemo
trubit ćete1
trubićete
trubit ćē1
trubiće
future II bȕdēm trubio2 bȕdēš trubio2 bȕdē trubio2 bȕdēmo trubili2 bȕdēte trubili2 bȕdū trubili2
past perfect trubio sam2 trubio si2 trubio je2 trubili smo2 trubili ste2 trubili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam trubio2 bȉo si trubio2 bȉo je trubio2 bíli smo trubili2 bíli ste trubili2 bíli su trubili2
imperfect trubljah trubljaše trubljaše trubljasmo trubljaste trubljahu
conditional conditional I trubio bih2 trubio bi2 trubio bi2 trubili bismo2 trubili biste2 trubili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih trubio2 bȉo bi trubio2 bȉo bi trubio2 bíli bismo trubili2 bíli biste trubili2 bíli bi trubili2
imperative trubi trubimo trubite
active past participle trubio m / trubila f / trubilo n trubili m / trubile f / trubila 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

  • potrúbiti
  • rastrúbiti
  • zatrúbiti

Further reading

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