odbijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /odbǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: od‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

odbíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling одби́јати)

1. (transitive) to refuse, decline
2. (transitive) to deflect, repulse, fend off, ward off
3. (transitive) to bounce off, ricochet, rebound
4. (transitive) to knock off
5. (transitive) to deduct, subtract, dock
6. (reflexive) to reflect

Conjugation

Conjugation of odbijati

Infinitive: odbijati		Present verbal adverb: odbíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: odbíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		odbijam	odbijaš	odbija	odbijamo	odbijate	odbijaju
Future	Future I	odbijat ću1 odbijaću	odbijat ćeš1 odbijaćeš	odbijat će1 odbijaće	odbijat ćemo1 odbijaćemo	odbijat ćete1 odbijaćete	odbijat će1 odbijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm odbijao2	bȕdēš odbijao2	bȕdē odbijao2	bȕdēmo odbijali2	bȕdēte odbijali2	bȕdū odbijali2
Past	Perfect	odbijao sam2	odbijao si2	odbijao je2	odbijali smo2	odbijali ste2	odbijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam odbijao2	bȉo si odbijao2	bȉo je odbijao2	bíli smo odbijali2	bíli ste odbijali2	bíli su odbijali2
	Imperfect	odbijah	odbijaše	odbijaše	odbijasmo	odbijaste	odbijahu
Conditional I		odbijao bih2	odbijao bi2	odbijao bi2	odbijali bismo2	odbijali biste2	odbijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih odbijao2	bȉo bi odbijao2	bȉo bi odbijao2	bíli bismo odbijali2	bíli biste odbijali2	bíli bi odbijali2
Imperative		—	odbijaj	—	odbijajmo	odbijajte	—
Active past participle		odbijao m / odbijala f / odbijalo n			odbijali m / odbijale f / odbijala n
Passive past participle		odbijan m / odbijana f / odbijano n			odbijani m / odbijane f / odbijana 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

• òdbiti pf

Further reading

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