zabraniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ braniti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zabrǎːniti/
  • Hyphenation: za‧bra‧ni‧ti

Verb

zabrániti pf (Cyrillic spelling забра́нити)

  1. (transitive) to forbid, prohibit
  2. (transitive) to disallow
  3. (transitive) to ban

Conjugation

Conjugation of zabraniti
infinitive zabraniti
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb zabránīvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zabranim zabraniš zabrani zabranimo zabranite zabrane
future future I zabranit ću1
zabraniću
zabranit ćeš1
zabranićeš
zabranit će1
zabraniće
zabranit ćemo1
zabranićemo
zabranit ćete1
zabranićete
zabranit ćē1
zabraniće
future II bȕdēm zabranio2 bȕdēš zabranio2 bȕdē zabranio2 bȕdēmo zabranili2 bȕdēte zabranili2 bȕdū zabranili2
past perfect zabranio sam2 zabranio si2 zabranio je2 zabranili smo2 zabranili ste2 zabranili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zabranio2 bȉo si zabranio2 bȉo je zabranio2 bíli smo zabranili2 bíli ste zabranili2 bíli su zabranili2
aorist zabranih zabrani zabrani zabranismo zabraniste zabraniše
conditional conditional I zabranio bih2 zabranio bi2 zabranio bi2 zabranili bismo2 zabranili biste2 zabranili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zabranio2 bȉo bi zabranio2 bȉo bi zabranio2 bíli bismo zabranili2 bíli biste zabranili2 bíli bi zabranili2
imperative zabrani zabranimo zabranite
active past participle zabranio m / zabranila f / zabranilo n zabranili m / zabranile f / zabranila n
passive past participle zabranjen m / zabranjena f / zabranjeno n zabranjeni m / zabranjene f / zabranjena 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

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