spasiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• spásti (Bosnian, Serbian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spǎːsiti/
• Hyphenation: spa‧si‧ti

Verb

spásiti pf (Cyrillic spelling спа́сити)

1. (transitive, Croatia, reflexive) to save, salvage (to help someone to survive)
2. (transitive, Croatia, reflexive) to rescue

Conjugation

Conjugation of spasiti

Infinitive: spasiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: spásīvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		spasim	spasiš	spasi	spasimo	spasite	spase
Future	Future I	spasit ću1 spasiću	spasit ćeš1 spasićeš	spasit će1 spasiće	spasit ćemo1 spasićemo	spasit ćete1 spasićete	spasit će1 spasiće
	Future II	bȕdēm spasio2	bȕdēš spasio2	bȕdē spasio2	bȕdēmo spasili2	bȕdēte spasili2	bȕdū spasili2
Past	Perfect	spasio sam2	spasio si2	spasio je2	spasili smo2	spasili ste2	spasili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam spasio2	bȉo si spasio2	bȉo je spasio2	bíli smo spasili2	bíli ste spasili2	bíli su spasili2
	Aorist	spasih	spasi	spasi	spasismo	spasiste	spasiše
Conditional I		spasio bih2	spasio bi2	spasio bi2	spasili bismo2	spasili biste2	spasili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih spasio2	bȉo bi spasio2	bȉo bi spasio2	bíli bismo spasili2	bíli biste spasili2	bíli bi spasili2
Imperative		—	spasi	—	spasimo	spasite	—
Active past participle		spasio m / spasila f / spasilo n			spasili m / spasile f / spasila n
Passive past participle		spašen m / spašena f / spašeno n			spašeni m / spašene f / spašena 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

• spašávati / spasávati impf
• spasilac

References

• “spasiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “spasiti”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume V, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 925