bubati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bȕb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǔːbati/
• Hyphenation: bu‧ba‧ti

Verb

búbati impf (Cyrillic spelling бу́бати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to cram, grind

   bubam za ispit c(ij)eli dan ― I've been cramming for an exam the whole day

2. (transitive, intransitive) to bang, thump
3. (intransitive, ironically) to chatter, babble
4. (transitive, intransitive) to announce, proclaim

Conjugation

Conjugation of bubati

Infinitive: bubati		Present verbal adverb: búbajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: búbānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bubam	bubaš	buba	bubamo	bubate	bubaju
Future	Future I	bubat ću1 bubaću	bubat ćeš1 bubaćeš	bubat će1 bubaće	bubat ćemo1 bubaćemo	bubat ćete1 bubaćete	bubat će1 bubaće
	Future II	bȕdēm bubao2	bȕdēš bubao2	bȕdē bubao2	bȕdēmo bubali2	bȕdēte bubali2	bȕdū bubali2
Past	Perfect	bubao sam2	bubao si2	bubao je2	bubali smo2	bubali ste2	bubali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam bubao2	bȉo si bubao2	bȉo je bubao2	bíli smo bubali2	bíli ste bubali2	bíli su bubali2
	Imperfect	bubah	bubaše	bubaše	bubasmo	bubaste	bubahu
Conditional I		bubao bih2	bubao bi2	bubao bi2	bubali bismo2	bubali biste2	bubali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih bubao2	bȉo bi bubao2	bȉo bi bubao2	bíli bismo bubali2	bíli biste bubali2	bíli bi bubali2
Imperative		—	bubaj	—	bubajmo	bubajte	—
Active past participle		bubao m / bubala f / bubalo n			bubali m / bubale f / bubala n
Passive past participle		buban m / bubana f / bubano n			bubani m / bubane f / bubana 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

• nabúbati

References

• “bubati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024