sabijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sabǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: sa‧bi‧ja‧ti

Verb

sabíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling саби́јати)

1. (transitive) to compress, condense (reduce volume in a technical process, e.g. air, cans)
2. (transitive, reflexive) to crowd together, pile together, round up

Conjugation

Conjugation of sabijati

Infinitive: sabijati		Present verbal adverb: sabíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: sabíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sabijam	sabijaš	sabija	sabijamo	sabijate	sabijaju
Future	Future I	sabijat ću1 sabijaću	sabijat ćeš1 sabijaćeš	sabijat će1 sabijaće	sabijat ćemo1 sabijaćemo	sabijat ćete1 sabijaćete	sabijat će1 sabijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm sabijao2	bȕdēš sabijao2	bȕdē sabijao2	bȕdēmo sabijali2	bȕdēte sabijali2	bȕdū sabijali2
Past	Perfect	sabijao sam2	sabijao si2	sabijao je2	sabijali smo2	sabijali ste2	sabijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sabijao2	bȉo si sabijao2	bȉo je sabijao2	bíli smo sabijali2	bíli ste sabijali2	bíli su sabijali2
	Imperfect	sabijah	sabijaše	sabijaše	sabijasmo	sabijaste	sabijahu
Conditional I		sabijao bih2	sabijao bi2	sabijao bi2	sabijali bismo2	sabijali biste2	sabijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sabijao2	bȉo bi sabijao2	bȉo bi sabijao2	bíli bismo sabijali2	bíli biste sabijali2	bíli bi sabijali2
Imperative		—	sabijaj	—	sabijajmo	sabijajte	—
Active past participle		sabijao m / sabijala f / sabijalo n			sabijali m / sabijale f / sabijala n
Passive past participle		sabijan m / sabijana f / sabijano n			sabijani m / sabijane f / sabijana 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

• sàbiti pf

Further reading

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