odbiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From od- ‎ biti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒdbiti/
• Hyphenation: od‧bi‧ti

Verb

òdbiti pf (Cyrillic spelling о̀дбити)

1. (transitive) to refuse, decline
2. (transitive) to deflect, repulse, fend off, ward off
3. (transitive) to bounce off, ricochet, rebound
4. (transitive) to knock off
5. (transitive) to deduct, subtract, dock
6. (reflexive) to reflect

Conjugation

Conjugation of odbiti

Infinitive: odbiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: òdbīvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		odbijem	odbiješ	odbije	odbijemo	odbijete	odbiju
Future	Future I	odbit ću1 odbiću	odbit ćeš1 odbićeš	odbit će1 odbiće	odbit ćemo1 odbićemo	odbit ćete1 odbićete	odbit će1 odbiće
	Future II	bȕdēm odbio2	bȕdēš odbio2	bȕdē odbio2	bȕdēmo odbili2	bȕdēte odbili2	bȕdū odbili2
Past	Perfect	odbio sam2	odbio si2	odbio je2	odbili smo2	odbili ste2	odbili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam odbio2	bȉo si odbio2	bȉo je odbio2	bíli smo odbili2	bíli ste odbili2	bíli su odbili2
	Aorist	odbih	odbi	odbi	odbismo	odbiste	odbiše
Conditional I		odbio bih2	odbio bi2	odbio bi2	odbili bismo2	odbili biste2	odbili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih odbio2	bȉo bi odbio2	bȉo bi odbio2	bíli bismo odbili2	bíli biste odbili2	bíli bi odbili2
Imperative		—	odbij	—	odbijmo	odbijte	—
Active past participle		odbio m / odbila f / odbilo n			odbili m / odbile f / odbila n
Passive past participle		odbijen m / odbijena f / odbijeno n			odbijeni m / odbijene f / odbijena 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.

Related terms

• odbíjati impf

Further reading

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