gubiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gubiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǔbiti/
• Hyphenation: gu‧bi‧ti

Verb

gùbiti impf (Cyrillic spelling гу̀бити)

1. (transitive) to lose, misplace
2. (transitive) to lose (a battle, war, competition, hope, life, consciousness etc.)
3. (intransitive) to lose (cards, race, elections etc.)
4. (reflexive) to get lost, disappear

Conjugation

Conjugation of gubiti

infinitive		gubiti
present verbal adverb		gùbēći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		gùbljēnje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		gubim	gubiš	gubi	gubimo	gubite	gube
future	future I	gubit ću1 gubiću	gubit ćeš1 gubićeš	gubit će1 gubiće	gubit ćemo1 gubićemo	gubit ćete1 gubićete	gubit ćē1 gubiće
	future II	bȕdēm gubio2	bȕdēš gubio2	bȕdē gubio2	bȕdēmo gubili2	bȕdēte gubili2	bȕdū gubili2
past	perfect	gubio sam2	gubio si2	gubio je2	gubili smo2	gubili ste2	gubili su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam gubio2	bȉo si gubio2	bȉo je gubio2	bíli smo gubili2	bíli ste gubili2	bíli su gubili2
	imperfect	gubljah	gubljaše	gubljaše	gubljasmo	gubljaste	gubljahu
conditional	conditional I	gubio bih2	gubio bi2	gubio bi2	gubili bismo2	gubili biste2	gubili bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih gubio2	bȉo bi gubio2	bȉo bi gubio2	bíli bismo gubili2	bíli biste gubili2	bíli bi gubili2
imperative		—	gubi	—	gubimo	gubite	—
active past participle		gubio m / gubila f / gubilo n			gubili m / gubile f / gubila n
passive past participle		gubljen m / gubljena f / gubljeno n			gubljeni m / gubljene f / gubljena 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

• dàngubiti
• gubitak
• gubitnik
• izgùbiti
• pogùbiti
• prodàngubiti
• zagùbiti

Further reading

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gubiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡubìːti/, /ɡubíːti/

Verb

gubīti impf

1. to lose, to misplace

Inflection

-iti -im (AP c)
infinitive	gubīti
1st singular	gubím
infinitive	gubīti			gubȋt, gubȉt
supine	—
verbal noun	gubljénje
	participle			converb
present	gubȅč			—
past	gubljȅn			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	gubȋł		gubíla		gubȋlo
dual	gubȋla		gubȋli		gubȋli
plural	gubȋli		gubȋle		gubȋla
	present			imperative
1st singular	gubím			—
2nd singular	gubíš			gúbi
3rd singular	gubí			—
1st dual	gubíva			gubȋva
2nd dual	gubíta			gubȋta
3rd dual	gubíta			—
1st plural	gubímo			gubȋmo
2nd plural	gubíte			gubȋte
3rd plural	gubíjo			—

Derived terms

• izgubīti
• pogubīti

Further reading

• “gubiti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025