zbijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zbǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: zbi‧ja‧ti

Verb

zbíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling зби́јати)

1. (transitive) to crowd together, jam, pile together, round up
2. (transitive) to compress, condense, contract

Conjugation

Conjugation of zbijati

Infinitive: zbijati		Present verbal adverb: zbíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zbíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zbijam	zbijaš	zbija	zbijamo	zbijate	zbijaju
Future	Future I	zbijat ću1 zbijaću	zbijat ćeš1 zbijaćeš	zbijat će1 zbijaće	zbijat ćemo1 zbijaćemo	zbijat ćete1 zbijaćete	zbijat će1 zbijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zbijao2	bȕdēš zbijao2	bȕdē zbijao2	bȕdēmo zbijali2	bȕdēte zbijali2	bȕdū zbijali2
Past	Perfect	zbijao sam2	zbijao si2	zbijao je2	zbijali smo2	zbijali ste2	zbijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zbijao2	bȉo si zbijao2	bȉo je zbijao2	bíli smo zbijali2	bíli ste zbijali2	bíli su zbijali2
	Imperfect	zbijah	zbijaše	zbijaše	zbijasmo	zbijaste	zbijahu
Conditional I		zbijao bih2	zbijao bi2	zbijao bi2	zbijali bismo2	zbijali biste2	zbijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zbijao2	bȉo bi zbijao2	bȉo bi zbijao2	bíli bismo zbijali2	bíli biste zbijali2	bíli bi zbijali2
Imperative		—	zbijaj	—	zbijajmo	zbijajte	—
Active past participle		zbijao m / zbijala f / zbijalo n			zbijali m / zbijale f / zbijala n
Passive past participle		zbijan m / zbijana f / zbijano n			zbijani m / zbijane f / zbijana 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

• zbȉti pf

Further reading

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