brzati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bȓz +‎ -ati. Compare the same formation in Latin breviō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /břzati/
• Hyphenation: br‧za‧ti

Verb

br̀zati impf (Cyrillic spelling бр̀зати)

1. (intransitive) to hurry, to rush

Conjugation

Conjugation of brzati

Infinitive: brzati		Present verbal adverb: br̀zajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: br̀zānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		brzam	brzaš	brza	brzamo	brzate	brzaju
Future	Future I	brzat ću1 brzaću	brzat ćeš1 brzaćeš	brzat će1 brzaće	brzat ćemo1 brzaćemo	brzat ćete1 brzaćete	brzat će1 brzaće
	Future II	bȕdēm brzao2	bȕdēš brzao2	bȕdē brzao2	bȕdēmo brzali2	bȕdēte brzali2	bȕdū brzali2
Past	Perfect	brzao sam2	brzao si2	brzao je2	brzali smo2	brzali ste2	brzali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam brzao2	bȉo si brzao2	bȉo je brzao2	bíli smo brzali2	bíli ste brzali2	bíli su brzali2
	Imperfect	brzah	brzaše	brzaše	brzasmo	brzaste	brzahu
Conditional I		brzao bih2	brzao bi2	brzao bi2	brzali bismo2	brzali biste2	brzali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih brzao2	bȉo bi brzao2	bȉo bi brzao2	bíli bismo brzali2	bíli biste brzali2	bíli bi brzali2
Imperative		—	brzaj	—	brzajmo	brzajte	—
Active past participle		brzao m / brzala f / brzalo n			brzali m / brzale f / brzala 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

• bȑznuti pf

References

• “brzati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024