trubiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trǫbiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trǔːbiti/
• Hyphenation: tru‧bi‧ti

Verb

trúbiti impf (Cyrillic spelling тру́бити)

1. (intransitive) to blow a bugle/trumpet
2. (intransitive) to honk (sound a horn of a car)

Conjugation

Conjugation of trubiti

Infinitive: trubiti		Present verbal adverb: trúbēći		Past verbal adverb: trubivši		Verbal noun: trúbljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		trubim	trubiš	trubi	trubimo	trubite	trube
Future	Future I	trubit ću1 trubiću	trubit ćeš1 trubićeš	trubit će1 trubiće	trubit ćemo1 trubićemo	trubit ćete1 trubićete	trubit će1 trubiće
	Future II	bȕdēm trubio2	bȕdēš trubio2	bȕdē trubio2	bȕdēmo trubili2	bȕdēte trubili2	bȕdū trubili2
Past	Perfect	trubio sam2	trubio si2	trubio je2	trubili smo2	trubili ste2	trubili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam trubio2	bȉo si trubio2	bȉo je trubio2	bíli smo trubili2	bíli ste trubili2	bíli su trubili2
	Imperfect	trubljah	trubljaše	trubljaše	trubljasmo	trubljaste	trubljahu
Conditional I		trubio bih2	trubio bi2	trubio bi2	trubili bismo2	trubili biste2	trubili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih trubio2	bȉo bi trubio2	bȉo bi trubio2	bíli bismo trubili2	bíli biste trubili2	bíli bi trubili2
Imperative		—	trubi	—	trubimo	trubite	—
Active past participle		trubio m / trubila f / trubilo n			trubili m / trubile f / trubila 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

• potrúbiti
• rastrúbiti
• zatrúbiti

Further reading

• “trubiti” in Hrvatski jezični portal