prebijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prebǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

prebíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling преби́јати)

1. (transitive) to beat up
2. (transitive) to settle (debt)
3. (transitive) to break (into halves, pieces)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prebijati

infinitive		prebijati
present verbal adverb		prebíjajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		prebíjānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		prebijam	prebijaš	prebija	prebijamo	prebijate	prebijaju
future	future I	prebijat ću1 prebijaću	prebijat ćeš1 prebijaćeš	prebijat će1 prebijaće	prebijat ćemo1 prebijaćemo	prebijat ćete1 prebijaćete	prebijat ćē1 prebijaće
	future II	bȕdēm prebijao2	bȕdēš prebijao2	bȕdē prebijao2	bȕdēmo prebijali2	bȕdēte prebijali2	bȕdū prebijali2
past	perfect	prebijao sam2	prebijao si2	prebijao je2	prebijali smo2	prebijali ste2	prebijali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam prebijao2	bȉo si prebijao2	bȉo je prebijao2	bíli smo prebijali2	bíli ste prebijali2	bíli su prebijali2
	imperfect	prebijah	prebijaše	prebijaše	prebijasmo	prebijaste	prebijahu
conditional	conditional I	prebijao bih2	prebijao bi2	prebijao bi2	prebijali bismo2	prebijali biste2	prebijali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih prebijao2	bȉo bi prebijao2	bȉo bi prebijao2	bíli bismo prebijali2	bíli biste prebijali2	bíli bi prebijali2
imperative		—	prebijaj	—	prebijajmo	prebijajte	—
active past participle		prebijao m / prebijala f / prebijalo n			prebijali m / prebijale f / prebijala n
passive past participle		prebijan m / prebijana f / prebijano n			prebijani m / prebijane f / prebijana 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

• prèbiti pf

Further reading

• “prebijati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025