rabiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *orbiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rǎːbiti/
• Hyphenation: ra‧bi‧ti

Verb

rábiti impf (Cyrillic spelling ра́бити)

1. (transitive) to use

Conjugation

Conjugation of rabiti

Infinitive: rabiti		Present verbal adverb: rábēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: rábljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		rabim	rabiš	rabi	rabimo	rabite	rabe
Future	Future I	rabit ću1 rabiću	rabit ćeš1 rabićeš	rabit će1 rabiće	rabit ćemo1 rabićemo	rabit ćete1 rabićete	rabit će1 rabiće
	Future II	bȕdēm rabio2	bȕdēš rabio2	bȕdē rabio2	bȕdēmo rabili2	bȕdēte rabili2	bȕdū rabili2
Past	Perfect	rabio sam2	rabio si2	rabio je2	rabili smo2	rabili ste2	rabili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam rabio2	bȉo si rabio2	bȉo je rabio2	bíli smo rabili2	bíli ste rabili2	bíli su rabili2
	Imperfect	rabljah	rabljaše	rabljaše	rabljasmo	rabljaste	rabljahu
Conditional I		rabio bih2	rabio bi2	rabio bi2	rabili bismo2	rabili biste2	rabili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih rabio2	bȉo bi rabio2	bȉo bi rabio2	bíli bismo rabili2	bíli biste rabili2	bíli bi rabili2
Imperative		—	rabi	—	rabimo	rabite	—
Active past participle		rabio m / rabila f / rabilo n			rabili m / rabile f / rabila n
Passive past participle		rabljen m / rabljena f / rabljeno n			rabljeni m / rabljene f / rabljena 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

• izrábiti
• uporábiti

Further reading

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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orbiti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rabìːti/, /rabíːti/, /ràːbiti/

Verb

rabīti or rábiti impf

1. to use
2. to need

Inflection

-iti -im (AP b)
infinitive	rabīti, rábiti
1st singular	rábim
infinitive	rabīti, rábiti			rabit
supine	rábit
verbal noun	rábljenje
	participle			converb
present	rabȅč			—
past	rábljen			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	rábił		rabȋla		rabílo
dual	rabíla		rabíli		rabíli
plural	rabíli		rabíle		rabíla
	present			imperative
1st singular	rábim			—
2nd singular	rábiš			rábi
3rd singular	rábi			—
1st dual	rábiva			rábiva, rabȋva
2nd dual	rábita			rábita, rabȋta
3rd dual	rábita			—
1st plural	rábimo			rábimo, rabȋmo
2nd plural	rábite			rábite, rabȋte
3rd plural	rábijo			—

Derived terms

• izrabīti
• obrabīti
• porabīti

Further reading

• “rabiti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “rabiti”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references