dangubiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

dan +‎ gubiti = lit. "to lose the day"

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǎnɡubiti/
• Hyphenation: dan‧gu‧bi‧ti

Verb

dàngubiti impf (Cyrillic spelling да̀нгубити)

1. (intransitive) to waste time
2. (intransitive) to loaf, idle, loiter, to slack off

Conjugation

Conjugation of dangubiti

Infinitive: dangubiti		Present verbal adverb: dàngubēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dàngubljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dangubim	dangubiš	dangubi	dangubimo	dangubite	dangube
Future	Future I	dangubit ću1 dangubiću	dangubit ćeš1 dangubićeš	dangubit će1 dangubiće	dangubit ćemo1 dangubićemo	dangubit ćete1 dangubićete	dangubit će1 dangubiće
	Future II	bȕdēm dangubio2	bȕdēš dangubio2	bȕdē dangubio2	bȕdēmo dangubili2	bȕdēte dangubili2	bȕdū dangubili2
Past	Perfect	dangubio sam2	dangubio si2	dangubio je2	dangubili smo2	dangubili ste2	dangubili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam dangubio2	bȉo si dangubio2	bȉo je dangubio2	bíli smo dangubili2	bíli ste dangubili2	bíli su dangubili2
	Imperfect	dangubljah	dangubljaše	dangubljaše	dangubljasmo	dangubljaste	dangubljahu
Conditional I		dangubio bih2	dangubio bi2	dangubio bi2	dangubili bismo2	dangubili biste2	dangubili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih dangubio2	bȉo bi dangubio2	bȉo bi dangubio2	bíli bismo dangubili2	bíli biste dangubili2	bíli bi dangubili2
Imperative		—	dangubi	—	dangubimo	dangubite	—
Active past participle		dangubio m / dangubila f / dangubilo n			dangubili m / dangubile f / dangubila 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

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