zauzimati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ uzimati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaǔzimati/
• Hyphenation: za‧u‧zi‧ma‧ti

Verb

zaùzimati impf (Cyrillic spelling зау̀зимати)

1. (transitive) to capture, seize, (fortress, city, position, area etc.; in war or fighting)
2. (transitive) to occupy, take possession of
3. (reflexive) to plead for, intervene on behalf of somebody or something

Conjugation

Conjugation of zauzimati

Infinitive: zauzimati		Present verbal adverb: zaùzimajūći/zaùzimljūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zaùzimānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zauzimam	zauzimaš	zauzima	zauzimamo	zauzimate	zauzimaju
Future	Future I	zauzimat ću1 zauzimaću	zauzimat ćeš1 zauzimaćeš	zauzimat će1 zauzimaće	zauzimat ćemo1 zauzimaćemo	zauzimat ćete1 zauzimaćete	zauzimat će1 zauzimaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zauzimao2	bȕdēš zauzimao2	bȕdē zauzimao2	bȕdēmo zauzimali2	bȕdēte zauzimali2	bȕdū zauzimali2
Past	Perfect	zauzimao sam2	zauzimao si2	zauzimao je2	zauzimali smo2	zauzimali ste2	zauzimali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zauzimao2	bȉo si zauzimao2	bȉo je zauzimao2	bíli smo zauzimali2	bíli ste zauzimali2	bíli su zauzimali2
	Imperfect	zauzimah	zauzimaše	zauzimaše	zauzimasmo	zauzimaste	zauzimahu
Conditional I		zauzimao bih2	zauzimao bi2	zauzimao bi2	zauzimali bismo2	zauzimali biste2	zauzimali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zauzimao2	bȉo bi zauzimao2	bȉo bi zauzimao2	bíli bismo zauzimali2	bíli biste zauzimali2	bíli bi zauzimali2
Imperative		—	zauzimaj	—	zauzimajmo	zauzimajte	—
Active past participle		zauzimao m / zauzimala f / zauzimalo n			zauzimali m / zauzimale f / zauzimala n
Passive past participle		zauziman m / zauzimana f / zauzimano n			zauzimani m / zauzimane f / zauzimana 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

• zaùzēti pf