otimati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒtimati/
• Hyphenation: o‧ti‧ma‧ti

Verb

òtimati impf (Cyrillic spelling о̀тимати)

1. (transitive) to kidnap
2. (transitive) to hijack (forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination)
3. (transitive) to rob (forcibly take away from someone valuables or property)
4. (reflexive) to free oneself from (especially of impression)
5. (reflexive) to vie, contend, scramble for/over something

Conjugation

Conjugation of otimati

infinitive		otimati
present verbal adverb		òtimajūći / òtimljūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		òtimānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		otimam / otimljem	otimaš / otimlješ	otima / otimlje	otimamo / otimljemo	otimate / otimljete	otimaju / otimlju
future	future I	otimat ću1 otimaću	otimat ćeš1 otimaćeš	otimat će1 otimaće	otimat ćemo1 otimaćemo	otimat ćete1 otimaćete	otimat ćē1 otimaće
	future II	bȕdēm otimao2	bȕdēš otimao2	bȕdē otimao2	bȕdēmo otimali2	bȕdēte otimali2	bȕdū otimali2
past	perfect	otimao sam2	otimao si2	otimao je2	otimali smo2	otimali ste2	otimali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam otimao2	bȉo si otimao2	bȉo je otimao2	bíli smo otimali2	bíli ste otimali2	bíli su otimali2
	imperfect	otimah	otimaše	otimaše	otimasmo	otimaste	otimahu
conditional	conditional I	otimao bih2	otimao bi2	otimao bi2	otimali bismo2	otimali biste2	otimali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih otimao2	bȉo bi otimao2	bȉo bi otimao2	bíli bismo otimali2	bíli biste otimali2	bíli bi otimali2
imperative		—	otimaj / otimlji	—	otimajmo / otimljimo	otimajte / otimljite	—
active past participle		otimao m / otimala f / otimalo n			otimali m / otimale f / otimala n
passive past participle		otiman m / otimana f / otimano n			otimani m / otimane f / otimana 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

• òtēti pf

Further reading

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