upotrebiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): upotrijébiti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /upotrěːbiti/
• Hyphenation: u‧po‧tre‧bi‧ti

Verb

upotrébiti pf (Cyrillic spelling употре́бити)

1. (transitive) to use, utilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of upotrebiti

Infinitive: upotrebiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: upotrébīvši		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		upotrebim	upotrebiš	upotrebi	upotrebimo	upotrebite	upotrebe
Future	Future I	upotrebit ću1 upotrebiću	upotrebit ćeš1 upotrebićeš	upotrebit će1 upotrebiće	upotrebit ćemo1 upotrebićemo	upotrebit ćete1 upotrebićete	upotrebit će1 upotrebiće
	Future II	bȕdēm upotrebio2	bȕdēš upotrebio2	bȕdē upotrebio2	bȕdēmo upotrebili2	bȕdēte upotrebili2	bȕdū upotrebili2
Past	Perfect	upotrebio sam2	upotrebio si2	upotrebio je2	upotrebili smo2	upotrebili ste2	upotrebili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam upotrebio2	bȉo si upotrebio2	bȉo je upotrebio2	bíli smo upotrebili2	bíli ste upotrebili2	bíli su upotrebili2
	Aorist	upotrebih	upotrebi	upotrebi	upotrebismo	upotrebiste	upotrebiše
Conditional I		upotrebio bih2	upotrebio bi2	upotrebio bi2	upotrebili bismo2	upotrebili biste2	upotrebili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih upotrebio2	bȉo bi upotrebio2	bȉo bi upotrebio2	bíli bismo upotrebili2	bíli biste upotrebili2	bíli bi upotrebili2
Imperative		—	upotrebi	—	upotrebimo	upotrebite	—
Active past participle		upotrebio m / upotrebila f / upotrebilo n			upotrebili m / upotrebile f / upotrebila n
Passive past participle		upotrebljen m / upotrebljena f / upotrebljeno n			upotrebljeni m / upotrebljene f / upotrebljena 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

• upotrebljávati impf