pobiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pobiti. Compare Old Czech pobiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒbiti/
• Hyphenation: po‧bi‧ti

Verb

pòbiti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀бити)

1. (transitive) to kill, slaughter (many individuals)
2. (transitive) to refute, disprove (prove something to be wrong or not the case)
3. (reflexive) to fight

Conjugation

Conjugation of pobiti

Infinitive: pobiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòbīvši		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		pobijem	pobiješ	pobije	pobijemo	pobijete	pobiju
Future	Future I	pobit ću1 pobiću	pobit ćeš1 pobićeš	pobit će1 pobiće	pobit ćemo1 pobićemo	pobit ćete1 pobićete	pobit će1 pobiće
	Future II	bȕdēm pobio2	bȕdēš pobio2	bȕdē pobio2	bȕdēmo pobili2	bȕdēte pobili2	bȕdū pobili2
Past	Perfect	pobio sam2	pobio si2	pobio je2	pobili smo2	pobili ste2	pobili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pobio2	bȉo si pobio2	bȉo je pobio2	bíli smo pobili2	bíli ste pobili2	bíli su pobili2
	Aorist	pobih	pobi	pobi	pobismo	pobiste	pobiše
Conditional I		pobio bih2	pobio bi2	pobio bi2	pobili bismo2	pobili biste2	pobili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pobio2	bȉo bi pobio2	bȉo bi pobio2	bíli bismo pobili2	bíli biste pobili2	bíli bi pobili2
Imperative		—	pobij	—	pobijmo	pobijte	—
Active past participle		pobio m / pobila f / pobilo n			pobili m / pobile f / pobila n
Passive past participle		pobijen m / pobijena f / pobijeno n			pobijeni m / pobijene f / pobijena 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

• pobíjati impf

Further reading

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