zajebavati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From zajèbati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zajebǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: za‧je‧ba‧va‧ti

Verb

zajebávati impf (Cyrillic spelling зајеба́вати)

1. (transitive, vulgar) to tease, fuck around, jerk around

   ne zajebavaj me! ― don't shit me!

   neće me on zajebavati ― I won't take any shit from him

2. (reflexive, vulgar) to joke, jest
3. (transitive, vulgar, colloquial) to fuck over, dick around

Conjugation

Conjugation of zajebavati

infinitive		zajebavati
present verbal adverb		zajebávajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		zajebávānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		zajebavam	zajebavaš	zajebava	zajebavamo	zajebavate	zajebavaju
future	future I	zajebavat ću1 zajebavaću	zajebavat ćeš1 zajebavaćeš	zajebavat će1 zajebavaće	zajebavat ćemo1 zajebavaćemo	zajebavat ćete1 zajebavaćete	zajebavat ćе̄1 zajebavaće
	future II	bȕdēm zajebavao2	bȕdēš zajebavao2	bȕdē zajebavao2	bȕdēmo zajebavali2	bȕdēte zajebavali2	bȕdū zajebavali2
past	perfect	zajebavao sam2	zajebavao si2	zajebavao je2	zajebavali smo2	zajebavali ste2	zajebavali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam zajebavao2	bȉo si zajebavao2	bȉo je zajebavao2	bíli smo zajebavali2	bíli ste zajebavali2	bíli su zajebavali2
	imperfect	zajebavah	zajebavaše	zajebavaše	zajebavasmo	zajebavaste	zajebavahu
conditional	conditional I	zajebavao bih2	zajebavao bi2	zajebavao bi2	zajebavali bismo2	zajebavali biste2	zajebavali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih zajebavao2	bȉo bi zajebavao2	bȉo bi zajebavao2	bíli bismo zajebavali2	bíli biste zajebavali2	bíli bi zajebavali2
imperative		—	zajebavaj	—	zajebavajmo	zajebavajte	—
active past participle		zajebavao m / zajebavala f / zajebavalo n			zajebavali m / zajebavale f / zajebavala n
passive past participle		zajebavan m / zajebavana f / zajebavano n			zajebavani m / zajebavane f / zajebavana 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.

References

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