uzeti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъzęti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔzeːti/
• Hyphenation: u‧ze‧ti

Verb

ùzēti pf (Cyrillic spelling у̀зе̄ти)

1. (transitive) to take (grasp with hands)
2. (transitive) to take (grab and move to oneself)
3. (transitive) to take (carry, particularly to a particular destination)
4. (transitive) to take (ingest medicine, drugs, etc. )
5. (transitive) to take (assume or interpret to be)
6. (transitive) to take (enroll in a class, or a course of study)
7. (transitive) to take (to deprive someone of something)
8. (transitive) to take (someone as an assistant or an apprentice)

Conjugation

Conjugation of uzeti

Infinitive: uzeti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: ùzēvši		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		uzmem	uzmeš	uzme	uzmemo	uzmete	uzmu
Future	Future I	uzet ću1 uzeću	uzet ćeš1 uzećeš	uzet će1 uzeće	uzet ćemo1 uzećemo	uzet ćete1 uzećete	uzet će1 uzeće
	Future II	bȕdēm uzeo2	bȕdēš uzeo2	bȕdē uzeo2	bȕdēmo uzeli2	bȕdēte uzeli2	bȕdū uzeli2
Past	Perfect	uzeo sam2	uzeo si2	uzeo je2	uzeli smo2	uzeli ste2	uzeli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam uzeo2	bȉo si uzeo2	bȉo je uzeo2	bíli smo uzeli2	bíli ste uzeli2	bíli su uzeli2
	Aorist	uzeh	uze	uze	uzesmo	uzeste	uzeše
Conditional I		uzeo bih2	uzeo bi2	uzeo bi2	uzeli bismo2	uzeli biste2	uzeli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih uzeo2	bȉo bi uzeo2	bȉo bi uzeo2	bíli bismo uzeli2	bíli biste uzeli2	bíli bi uzeli2
Imperative		—	uzmi	—	uzmimo	uzmite	—
Active past participle		uzeo m / uzela f / uzelo n			uzeli m / uzele f / uzela n
Passive past participle		uzet m / uzeta f / uzeto n			uzeti m / uzete f / uzeta 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

• obùzēti
• odùzēti
• podùzēti
• preùzēti
• zaùzēti

Related terms

• ùzimati impf

References

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