snebivati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

s/sa (“with”) + ne (“not”) + bívati

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snebǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: sne‧bi‧va‧ti

Verb

snebívati impf (Cyrillic spelling снеби́вати)

1. (reflexive) to excessively or falsely marvel or be shocked

Conjugation

Conjugation of snebivati

Infinitive: snebivati		Present verbal adverb: snebívajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: snebívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		snebivam	snebivaš	snebiva	snebivamo	snebivate	snebivaju
Future	Future I	snebivat ću1 snebivaću	snebivat ćeš1 snebivaćeš	snebivat će1 snebivaće	snebivat ćemo1 snebivaćemo	snebivat ćete1 snebivaćete	snebivat će1 snebivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm snebivao2	bȕdēš snebivao2	bȕdē snebivao2	bȕdēmo snebivali2	bȕdēte snebivali2	bȕdū snebivali2
Past	Perfect	snebivao sam2	snebivao si2	snebivao je2	snebivali smo2	snebivali ste2	snebivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam snebivao2	bȉo si snebivao2	bȉo je snebivao2	bíli smo snebivali2	bíli ste snebivali2	bíli su snebivali2
	Imperfect	snebivah	snebivaše	snebivaše	snebivasmo	snebivaste	snebivahu
Conditional I		snebivao bih2	snebivao bi2	snebivao bi2	snebivali bismo2	snebivali biste2	snebivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih snebivao2	bȉo bi snebivao2	bȉo bi snebivao2	bíli bismo snebivali2	bíli biste snebivali2	bíli bi snebivali2
Imperative		—	snebivaj	—	snebivajmo	snebivajte	—
Active past participle		snebivao m / snebivala f / snebivalo n			snebivali m / snebivale f / snebivala 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:snebivati.

Related terms

• snèbiti pf

Further reading

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