obosti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From o- +‎ bosti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ǒbosti/
Hyphenation: o‧bos‧ti

Verb

òbosti pf (Cyrillic spelling о̀бости)

(transitive, literary) to give spurs to, prick off, rowel

Conjugation

Conjugation of obosti

Infinitive: obosti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: òbōvši		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		obodem	obodeš	obode	obodemo	obodete	obodu
Future	Future I	obost ću¹ obošću	obost ćeš¹ obošćeš	obost će¹ obošće	obost ćemo¹ obošćemo	obost ćete¹ obošćete	obost će¹ obošće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm oboo²	bȕdēš oboo²	bȕdē oboo²	bȕdēmo oboli²	bȕdēte oboli²	bȕdū oboli²
Past	Perfect	oboo sam²	oboo si²	oboo je²	oboli smo²	oboli ste²	oboli su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam oboo²	bȉo si oboo²	bȉo je oboo²	bíli smo oboli²	bíli ste oboli²	bíli su oboli²
	Aorist	obodoh	obode	obode	obodosmo	obodoste	obodoše
Conditional I		oboo bih²	oboo bi²	oboo bi²	oboli bismo²	oboli biste²	oboli bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih oboo²	bȉo bi oboo²	bȉo bi oboo²	bíli bismo oboli²	bíli biste oboli²	bíli bi oboli²
Imperative		—	obodi	—	obodimo	obodite	—
Active past participle		oboo m / obola f / obolo n			oboli m / obole f / obola n
Passive past participle		oboden m / obodena f / obodeno n			obodeni m / obodene f / obodena 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

obádati impf

References

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