zobati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobati, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (“to watch, show”). Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (“to watch, to look”), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look after, care for”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zǒbati/
• Hyphenation: zo‧ba‧ti

Verb

zòbati impf (Cyrillic spelling зо̀бати)

1. (transitive) to peck

Conjugation

Conjugation of zobati

Infinitive: zobati		Present verbal adverb: zȍbljūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zòbānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zobljem	zoblješ	zoblje	zobljemo	zobljete	zoblju
Future	Future I	zobat ću1 zobaću	zobat ćeš1 zobaćeš	zobat će1 zobaće	zobat ćemo1 zobaćemo	zobat ćete1 zobaćete	zobat će1 zobaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zobao2	bȕdēš zobao2	bȕdē zobao2	bȕdēmo zobali2	bȕdēte zobali2	bȕdū zobali2
Past	Perfect	zobao sam2	zobao si2	zobao je2	zobali smo2	zobali ste2	zobali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zobao2	bȉo si zobao2	bȉo je zobao2	bíli smo zobali2	bíli ste zobali2	bíli su zobali2
	Imperfect	zobah	zobaše	zobaše	zobasmo	zobaste	zobahu
Conditional I		zobao bih2	zobao bi2	zobao bi2	zobali bismo2	zobali biste2	zobali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zobao2	bȉo bi zobao2	bȉo bi zobao2	bíli bismo zobali2	bíli biste zobali2	bíli bi zobali2
Imperative		—	zoblji	—	zobljimo	zobljite	—
Active past participle		zobao m / zobala f / zobalo n			zobali m / zobale f / zobala n
Passive past participle		zoban m / zobana f / zobano n			zobani m / zobane f / zobana 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.

Derived terms

• pozòbati

Further reading

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