bazati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باصامق (basamak). Compare basati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bǎːzati/
Hyphenation: ba‧za‧ti

Verb

bázati impf (Cyrillic spelling ба́зати)

(intransitive) to loiter about

Conjugation

Conjugation of bazati

Infinitive: bazati		Present verbal adverb: bázajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bázānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bazam	bazaš	baza	bazamo	bazate	bazaju
Future	Future I	bazat ću¹ bazaću	bazat ćeš¹ bazaćeš	bazat će¹ bazaće	bazat ćemo¹ bazaćemo	bazat ćete¹ bazaćete	bazat će¹ bazaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm bazao²	bȕdēš bazao²	bȕdē bazao²	bȕdēmo bazali²	bȕdēte bazali²	bȕdū bazali²
Past	Perfect	bazao sam²	bazao si²	bazao je²	bazali smo²	bazali ste²	bazali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam bazao²	bȉo si bazao²	bȉo je bazao²	bíli smo bazali²	bíli ste bazali²	bíli su bazali²
	Imperfect	bazah	bazaše	bazaše	bazasmo	bazaste	bazahu
Conditional I		bazao bih²	bazao bi²	bazao bi²	bazali bismo²	bazali biste²	bazali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih bazao²	bȉo bi bazao²	bȉo bi bazao²	bíli bismo bazali²	bíli biste bazali²	bíli bi bazali²
Imperative		—	bazaj	—	bazajmo	bazajte	—
Active past participle		bazao m / bazala f / bazalo n			bazali m / bazale f / bazala 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

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