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)

1. (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 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