pribijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pribǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: pri‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

pribíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling приби́јати)

1. (transitive) to nail (fix using a nail)
2. (reflexive) to cuddle up closely, nestle up to sth, snuggle up to sth

Conjugation

Conjugation of pribijati

Infinitive: pribijati		Present verbal adverb: pribíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pribíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pribijam	pribijaš	pribija	pribijamo	pribijate	pribijaju
Future	Future I	pribijat ću1 pribijaću	pribijat ćeš1 pribijaćeš	pribijat će1 pribijaće	pribijat ćemo1 pribijaćemo	pribijat ćete1 pribijaćete	pribijat će1 pribijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm pribijao2	bȕdēš pribijao2	bȕdē pribijao2	bȕdēmo pribijali2	bȕdēte pribijali2	bȕdū pribijali2
Past	Perfect	pribijao sam2	pribijao si2	pribijao je2	pribijali smo2	pribijali ste2	pribijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pribijao2	bȉo si pribijao2	bȉo je pribijao2	bíli smo pribijali2	bíli ste pribijali2	bíli su pribijali2
	Imperfect	pribijah	pribijaše	pribijaše	pribijasmo	pribijaste	pribijahu
Conditional I		pribijao bih2	pribijao bi2	pribijao bi2	pribijali bismo2	pribijali biste2	pribijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pribijao2	bȉo bi pribijao2	bȉo bi pribijao2	bíli bismo pribijali2	bíli biste pribijali2	bíli bi pribijali2
Imperative		—	pribijaj	—	pribijajmo	pribijajte	—
Active past participle		pribijao m / pribijala f / pribijalo n			pribijali m / pribijale f / pribijala n
Passive past participle		pribijan m / pribijana f / pribijano n			pribijani m / pribijane f / pribijana 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

• prìbiti pf

Further reading

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