zobati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zobati, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gab- (“to watch, show”).[1] Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *kapēn (“to watch, to look”), Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look after, care for”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zǒbati/
  • Hyphenation: zo‧ba‧ti

Verb

zòbati impf (Cyrillic spelling зо̀бати)

  1. (transitive) to peck

Conjugation
Conjugation of zobati
Infinitive: zobati Present verbal adverb: zȍbljūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zòbānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zobljem zoblješ zoblje zobljemo zobljete zoblju
Future Future I zobat ću1
zobaću		 zobat ćeš1
zobaćeš		 zobat će1
zobaće		 zobat ćemo1
zobaćemo		 zobat ćete1
zobaćete		 zobat će1
zobaće
Future II bȕdēm zobao2 bȕdēš zobao2 bȕdē zobao2 bȕdēmo zobali2 bȕdēte zobali2 bȕdū zobali2
Past Perfect zobao sam2 zobao si2 zobao je2 zobali smo2 zobali ste2 zobali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zobao2 bȉo si zobao2 bȉo je zobao2 bíli smo zobali2 bíli ste zobali2 bíli su zobali2
Imperfect zobah zobaše zobaše zobasmo zobaste zobahu
Conditional I zobao bih2 zobao bi2 zobao bi2 zobali bismo2 zobali biste2 zobali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zobao2 bȉo bi zobao2 bȉo bi zobao2 bíli bismo zobali2 bíli biste zobali2 bíli bi zobali2
Imperative — zoblji — zobljimo zobljite —
Active past participle zobao m / zobala f / zobalo n zobali m / zobale f / zobala n
Passive past participle zoban m / zobana f / zobano n zobani m / zobane f / zobana 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.

Derived terms
  • pozòbati

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 349, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 349

Further reading
  • “zobati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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