pobijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pobǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: po‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

pobíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling поби́јати)

1. (transitive) to kill (many)
2. (transitive) to refute (arguments, claim etc.)
3. (reflexive) to fight

Conjugation

Conjugation of pobijati

infinitive		pobijati
present verbal adverb		pobíjajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		pobíjānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		pobijam	pobijaš	pobija	pobijamo	pobijate	pobijaju
future	future I	pobijat ću1 pobijaću	pobijat ćeš1 pobijaćeš	pobijat će1 pobijaće	pobijat ćemo1 pobijaćemo	pobijat ćete1 pobijaćete	pobijat ćē1 pobijaće
	future II	bȕdēm pobijao2	bȕdēš pobijao2	bȕdē pobijao2	bȕdēmo pobijali2	bȕdēte pobijali2	bȕdū pobijali2
past	perfect	pobijao sam2	pobijao si2	pobijao je2	pobijali smo2	pobijali ste2	pobijali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam pobijao2	bȉo si pobijao2	bȉo je pobijao2	bíli smo pobijali2	bíli ste pobijali2	bíli su pobijali2
	imperfect	pobijah	pobijaše	pobijaše	pobijasmo	pobijaste	pobijahu
conditional	conditional I	pobijao bih2	pobijao bi2	pobijao bi2	pobijali bismo2	pobijali biste2	pobijali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih pobijao2	bȉo bi pobijao2	bȉo bi pobijao2	bíli bismo pobijali2	bíli biste pobijali2	bíli bi pobijali2
imperative		—	pobijaj	—	pobijajmo	pobijajte	—
active past participle		pobijao m / pobijala f / pobijalo n			pobijali m / pobijale f / pobijala n
passive past participle		pobijan m / pobijana f / pobijano n			pobijani m / pobijane f / pobijana 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

• pòbiti pf

Further reading

• “pobijati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025