zbivati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ bivati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zbǐːʋati/
Hyphenation: zbi‧va‧ti

Verb

zbívati impf (Cyrillic spelling зби́вати)

(reflexive) to happen, occur

Conjugation

Conjugation of *zbivati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		zbivati
present verbal adverb		zbívajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		zbívānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		zbivam	zbivaš	zbiva	zbivamo	zbivate	zbivaju
future	future I	zbivat ću¹ zbivaću	zbivat ćeš¹ zbivaćeš	zbivat će¹ zbivaće	zbivat ćemo¹ zbivaćemo	zbivat ćete¹ zbivaćete	zbivat ćē¹ zbivaće
future	future II	bȕdēm zbivao²	bȕdēš zbivao²	bȕdē zbivao²	bȕdēmo zbivali²	bȕdēte zbivali²	bȕdū zbivali²
past	perfect	zbivao sam²	zbivao si²	zbivao je²	zbivali smo²	zbivali ste²	zbivali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam zbivao²	bȉo si zbivao²	bȉo je zbivao²	bíli smo zbivali²	bíli ste zbivali²	bíli su zbivali²
	imperfect	zbivah	zbivaše	zbivaše	zbivasmo	zbivaste	zbivahu
conditional	conditional I	zbivao bih²	zbivao bi²	zbivao bi²	zbivali bismo²	zbivali biste²	zbivali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih zbivao²	bȉo bi zbivao²	bȉo bi zbivao²	bíli bismo zbivali²	bíli biste zbivali²	bíli bi zbivali²
imperative		—	zbivaj	—	zbivajmo	zbivajte	—
active past participle		zbivao m / zbivala f / zbivalo n			zbivali m / zbivale f / zbivala 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.

Related terms

zbȉti pf