zabraniti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ braniti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zabrǎːniti/
• Hyphenation: za‧bra‧ni‧ti

Verb

zabrániti pf (Cyrillic spelling забра́нити)

1. (transitive) to forbid, prohibit
2. (transitive) to disallow
3. (transitive) to ban

Conjugation

Conjugation of zabraniti

Infinitive: zabraniti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: zabránīvši		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		zabranim	zabraniš	zabrani	zabranimo	zabranite	zabrane
Future	Future I	zabranit ću1 zabraniću	zabranit ćeš1 zabranićeš	zabranit će1 zabraniće	zabranit ćemo1 zabranićemo	zabranit ćete1 zabranićete	zabranit će1 zabraniće
	Future II	bȕdēm zabranio2	bȕdēš zabranio2	bȕdē zabranio2	bȕdēmo zabranili2	bȕdēte zabranili2	bȕdū zabranili2
Past	Perfect	zabranio sam2	zabranio si2	zabranio je2	zabranili smo2	zabranili ste2	zabranili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zabranio2	bȉo si zabranio2	bȉo je zabranio2	bíli smo zabranili2	bíli ste zabranili2	bíli su zabranili2
	Aorist	zabranih	zabrani	zabrani	zabranismo	zabraniste	zabraniše
Conditional I		zabranio bih2	zabranio bi2	zabranio bi2	zabranili bismo2	zabranili biste2	zabranili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zabranio2	bȉo bi zabranio2	bȉo bi zabranio2	bíli bismo zabranili2	bíli biste zabranili2	bíli bi zabranili2
Imperative		—	zabrani	—	zabranimo	zabranite	—
Active past participle		zabranio m / zabranila f / zabranilo n			zabranili m / zabranile f / zabranila n
Passive past participle		zabranjen m / zabranjena f / zabranjeno n			zabranjeni m / zabranjene f / zabranjena 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

• zabranjívati impf

Further reading

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