paziti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *paziti (“to heed”). Cognate with Bulgarian пазя (pazja, “to safeguard”), Slovene paziti (“protect”), Ukrainian пазити (pazyty, “to look after”). Non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse spakr (“wise”), speki (“wisdom”), spekja (“to soothe”). Compare Latin speciō (“to watch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâziti/
• Hyphenation: pa‧zi‧ti

Verb

pȁziti impf (Cyrillic spelling па̏зити)

1. (intransitive) to beware, watch out, be careful
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to take care of (+ na (“on”))
3. (intransitive) to keep an eye on, watch (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of paziti

Infinitive: paziti		Present verbal adverb: pȁzēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pȁžēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pazim	paziš	pazi	pazimo	pazite	paze
Future	Future I	pazit ću1 paziću	pazit ćeš1 pazićeš	pazit će1 paziće	pazit ćemo1 pazićemo	pazit ćete1 pazićete	pazit će1 paziće
	Future II	bȕdēm pazio2	bȕdēš pazio2	bȕdē pazio2	bȕdēmo pazili2	bȕdēte pazili2	bȕdū pazili2
Past	Perfect	pazio sam2	pazio si2	pazio je2	pazili smo2	pazili ste2	pazili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pazio2	bȉo si pazio2	bȉo je pazio2	bíli smo pazili2	bíli ste pazili2	bíli su pazili2
	Imperfect	pažah	pažaše	pažaše	pažasmo	pažaste	pažahu
Conditional I		pazio bih2	pazio bi2	pazio bi2	pazili bismo2	pazili biste2	pazili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pazio2	bȉo bi pazio2	bȉo bi pazio2	bíli bismo pazili2	bíli biste pazili2	bíli bi pazili2
Imperative		—	pazi	—	pazimo	pazite	—
Active past participle		pazio m / pazila f / pazilo n			pazili m / pazile f / pazila n
Passive past participle		pažen m / pažena f / paženo n			paženi m / pažene f / pažena 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

• òpaziti
• pažljiv
• prìpaziti
• spȁziti
• zàpaziti

 

Further reading

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