zabijati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zabijati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zabǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: za‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

zabíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling заби́јати)

1. (transitive) to hammer in, pound in, drive in
2. (transitive) to score (a goal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zabijati

Infinitive: zabijati		Present verbal adverb: zabíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zabíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zabijam	zabijaš	zabija	zabijamo	zabijate	zabijaju
Future	Future I	zabijat ću1 zabijaću	zabijat ćeš1 zabijaćeš	zabijat će1 zabijaće	zabijat ćemo1 zabijaćemo	zabijat ćete1 zabijaćete	zabijat će1 zabijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zabijao2	bȕdēš zabijao2	bȕdē zabijao2	bȕdēmo zabijali2	bȕdēte zabijali2	bȕdū zabijali2
Past	Perfect	zabijao sam2	zabijao si2	zabijao je2	zabijali smo2	zabijali ste2	zabijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zabijao2	bȉo si zabijao2	bȉo je zabijao2	bíli smo zabijali2	bíli ste zabijali2	bíli su zabijali2
	Imperfect	zabijah	zabijaše	zabijaše	zabijasmo	zabijaste	zabijahu
Conditional I		zabijao bih2	zabijao bi2	zabijao bi2	zabijali bismo2	zabijali biste2	zabijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zabijao2	bȉo bi zabijao2	bȉo bi zabijao2	bíli bismo zabijali2	bíli biste zabijali2	bíli bi zabijali2
Imperative		—	zabijaj	—	zabijajmo	zabijajte	—
Active past participle		zabijao m / zabijala f / zabijalo n			zabijali m / zabijale f / zabijala n
Passive past participle		zabijan m / zabijana f / zabijano n			zabijani m / zabijane f / zabijana 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

• zàbiti pf

Further reading

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