podbaciti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pod- +‎ baciti.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /podbǎːt͡siti/
  • Hyphenation: pod‧ba‧ci‧ti

Verb

podbáciti pf (Cyrillic spelling подба́цити)

  1. (transitive) to underthrow
  2. (transitive, by extension) to fail, disappoint (to be unsuccessful)
    Nedavne ekonomske mjere gradske skupštine su podbacile.
    City council's recent economic measures failed.
  3. (transitive, by extension) to fail, disappoint, fall short, fall flat, miss the mark (be unsuccessful in meeting expectations)
  4. (archaic) to miscarry

Conjugation
Conjugation of podbaciti
Infinitive: podbaciti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: podbacivši 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 podbacim podbaciš podbaci podbacimo podbacite podbace
Future Future I podbacit ću1
podbaciću		 podbacit ćeš1
podbacićeš		 podbacit će1
podbaciće		 podbacit ćemo1
podbacićemo		 podbacit ćete1
podbacićete		 podbacit će1
podbaciće
Future II bȕdēm podbacio2 bȕdēš podbacio2 bȕdē podbacio2 bȕdēmo podbacili2 bȕdēte podbacili2 bȕdū podbacili2
Past Perfect podbacio sam2 podbacio si2 podbacio je2 podbacili smo2 podbacili ste2 podbacili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam podbacio2 bȉo si podbacio2 bȉo je podbacio2 bíli smo podbacili2 bíli ste podbacili2 bíli su podbacili2
Aorist podbacih podbaci podbaci podbacismo podbaciste podbaciše
Conditional I podbacio bih2 podbacio bi2 podbacio bi2 podbacili bismo2 podbacili biste2 podbacili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih podbacio2 bȉo bi podbacio2 bȉo bi podbacio2 bíli bismo podbacili2 bíli biste podbacili2 bíli bi podbacili2
Imperative — podbaci — podbacimo podbacite —
Active past participle podbacio m / podbacila f / podbacilo n podbacili m / podbacile f / podbacila n
Passive past participle podbačen m / podbačena f / podbačeno n podbačeni m / podbačene f / podbačena 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.

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