habati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gabati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xâbati/
• Hyphenation: ha‧ba‧ti

Verb

hȁbati impf (Cyrillic spelling ха̏бати)

1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to wear out, abrade

   habati čizme ― to wear out boots

   Gume na mom novom autu se brzo habaju. ― Tires on my new car wear out quickly

Conjugation

Conjugation of habati

Infinitive: habati		Present verbal adverb: hȁbajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: hȁbānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		habam	habaš	haba	habamo	habate	habaju
Future	Future I	habat ću1 habaću	habat ćeš1 habaćeš	habat će1 habaće	habat ćemo1 habaćemo	habat ćete1 habaćete	habat će1 habaće
	Future II	bȕdēm habao2	bȕdēš habao2	bȕdē habao2	bȕdēmo habali2	bȕdēte habali2	bȕdū habali2
Past	Perfect	habao sam2	habao si2	habao je2	habali smo2	habali ste2	habali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam habao2	bȉo si habao2	bȉo je habao2	bíli smo habali2	bíli ste habali2	bíli su habali2
	Imperfect	habah	habaše	habaše	habasmo	habaste	habahu
Conditional I		habao bih2	habao bi2	habao bi2	habali bismo2	habali biste2	habali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih habao2	bȉo bi habao2	bȉo bi habao2	bíli bismo habali2	bíli biste habali2	bíli bi habali2
Imperative		—	habaj	—	habajmo	habajte	—
Active past participle		habao m / habala f / habalo n			habali m / habale f / habala n
Passive past participle		haban m / habana f / habano n			habani m / habane f / habana 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.

Derived terms

• pòhabati
• ìshabati

References

• “habati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Anagrams

• bahati