sabiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sa- +‎ biti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎbiti/
• Hyphenation: sa‧bi‧ti

Verb

sàbiti pf (Cyrillic spelling са̀бити)

1. (transitive) to compress, condense (reduce volume in a technical process, e.g. air, cans)
2. (transitive, reflexive) to crowd together, pile together, round up

Conjugation

Conjugation of sabiti

Infinitive: sabiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: sàbīvši		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		sabijem	sabiješ	sabije	sabijemo	sabijete	sabiju
Future	Future I	sabit ću1 sabiću	sabit ćeš1 sabićeš	sabit će1 sabiće	sabit ćemo1 sabićemo	sabit ćete1 sabićete	sabit će1 sabiće
	Future II	bȕdēm sabio2	bȕdēš sabio2	bȕdē sabio2	bȕdēmo sabili2	bȕdēte sabili2	bȕdū sabili2
Past	Perfect	sabio sam2	sabio si2	sabio je2	sabili smo2	sabili ste2	sabili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sabio2	bȉo si sabio2	bȉo je sabio2	bíli smo sabili2	bíli ste sabili2	bíli su sabili2
	Aorist	sabih	sabi	sabi	sabismo	sabiste	sabiše
Conditional I		sabio bih2	sabio bi2	sabio bi2	sabili bismo2	sabili biste2	sabili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sabio2	bȉo bi sabio2	bȉo bi sabio2	bíli bismo sabili2	bíli biste sabili2	bíli bi sabili2
Imperative		—	sabij	—	sabijmo	sabijte	—
Active past participle		sabio m / sabila f / sabilo n			sabili m / sabile f / sabila n
Passive past participle		sabijen m / sabijena f / sabijeno n			sabijeni m / sabijene f / sabijena 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

• sabíjati impf

Further reading

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