obasuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From earlier *obъsuti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /obǎsuːti/
• Hyphenation: o‧ba‧su‧ti

Verb

obàsūti pf (Cyrillic spelling оба̀сӯти)

1. (transitive) to deluge, swamp, flood or overwhelm with, to bestow liberally
2. (transitive) to cover or shower with

   obasuti cv(ij)ećem ― to shower with flowers

   obasuti pažnjom ― to lavish attention on

   obasuti vatrom iz automata ― to spray with submachine gunfire

Conjugation

Conjugation of obasuti

Infinitive: obasuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: obàsūvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		obaspem	obaspeš	obaspe	obaspemo	obaspete	obaspu
Future	Future I	obasut ću1 obasuću	obasut ćeš1 obasućeš	obasut će1 obasuće	obasut ćemo1 obasućemo	obasut ćete1 obasućete	obasut će1 obasuće
	Future II	bȕdēm obasuo2	bȕdēš obasuo2	bȕdē obasuo2	bȕdēmo obasuli2	bȕdēte obasuli2	bȕdū obasuli2
Past	Perfect	obasuo sam2	obasuo si2	obasuo je2	obasuli smo2	obasuli ste2	obasuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam obasuo2	bȉo si obasuo2	bȉo je obasuo2	bíli smo obasuli2	bíli ste obasuli2	bíli su obasuli2
	Aorist	obasuh	obasu	obasu	obasusmo	obasuste	obasuše
Conditional I		obasuo bih2	obasuo bi2	obasuo bi2	obasuli bismo2	obasuli biste2	obasuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih obasuo2	bȉo bi obasuo2	bȉo bi obasuo2	bíli bismo obasuli2	bíli biste obasuli2	bíli bi obasuli2
Imperative		—	obaspi	—	obaspimo	obaspite	—
Active past participle		obasuo m / obasula f / obasulo n			obasuli m / obasule f / obasula n
Passive past participle		obasut m / obasuta f / obasuto n			obasuti m / obasute f / obasuta 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

• obàsipati impf

References

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