zbivati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From s- +‎ bivati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zbǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: zbi‧va‧ti

Verb

zbívati impf (Cyrillic spelling зби́вати)

1. (reflexive) to happen, occur

Conjugation

Conjugation of zbivati

Infinitive: zbivati		Present verbal adverb: zbívajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zbívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zbivam	zbivaš	zbiva	zbivamo	zbivate	zbivaju
Future	Future I	zbivat ću1 zbivaću	zbivat ćeš1 zbivaćeš	zbivat će1 zbivaće	zbivat ćemo1 zbivaćemo	zbivat ćete1 zbivaćete	zbivat će1 zbivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zbivao2	bȕdēš zbivao2	bȕdē zbivao2	bȕdēmo zbivali2	bȕdēte zbivali2	bȕdū zbivali2
Past	Perfect	zbivao sam2	zbivao si2	zbivao je2	zbivali smo2	zbivali ste2	zbivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zbivao2	bȉo si zbivao2	bȉo je zbivao2	bíli smo zbivali2	bíli ste zbivali2	bíli su zbivali2
	Imperfect	zbivah	zbivaše	zbivaše	zbivasmo	zbivaste	zbivahu
Conditional I		zbivao bih2	zbivao bi2	zbivao bi2	zbivali bismo2	zbivali biste2	zbivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zbivao2	bȉo bi zbivao2	bȉo bi zbivao2	bíli bismo zbivali2	bíli biste zbivali2	bíli bi zbivali2
Imperative		—	zbivaj	—	zbivajmo	zbivajte	—
Active past participle		zbivao m / zbivala f / zbivalo n			zbivali m / zbivale f / zbivala 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

• zbȉti pf

Further reading

• “zbivati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024