zabušavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zabuʃǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧bu‧ša‧va‧ti

Verb

zabušávati impf (Cyrillic spelling забуша́вати)

  1. (colloquial, ambitransitive) to shirk

Conjugation

Conjugation of zabušavati
infinitive zabušavati
present verbal adverb zabušávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun zabušávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zabušavam zabušavaš zabušava zabušavamo zabušavate zabušavaju
future future I zabušavat ću1
zabušavaću
zabušavat ćeš1
zabušavaćeš
zabušavat će1
zabušavaće
zabušavat ćemo1
zabušavaćemo
zabušavat ćete1
zabušavaćete
zabušavat ćē1
zabušavaće
future II bȕdēm zabušavao2 bȕdēš zabušavao2 bȕdē zabušavao2 bȕdēmo zabušavali2 bȕdēte zabušavali2 bȕdū zabušavali2
past perfect zabušavao sam2 zabušavao si2 zabušavao je2 zabušavali smo2 zabušavali ste2 zabušavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zabušavao2 bȉo si zabušavao2 bȉo je zabušavao2 bíli smo zabušavali2 bíli ste zabušavali2 bíli su zabušavali2
imperfect zabušavah zabušavaše zabušavaše zabušavasmo zabušavaste zabušavahu
conditional conditional I zabušavao bih2 zabušavao bi2 zabušavao bi2 zabušavali bismo2 zabušavali biste2 zabušavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zabušavao2 bȉo bi zabušavao2 bȉo bi zabušavao2 bíli bismo zabušavali2 bíli biste zabušavali2 bíli bi zabušavali2
imperative zabušavaj zabušavajmo zabušavajte
active past participle zabušavao m / zabušavala f / zabušavalo n zabušavali m / zabušavale f / zabušavala n
passive past participle zabušavan m / zabušavana f / zabušavano n zabušavani m / zabušavane f / zabušavana 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

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