podbaciti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

pod- +‎ baciti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /podbáciti/
Hyphenation: pod‧ba‧ci‧ti

Verb

podbáciti pf (Cyrillic spelling подба́цити)

(transitive) to underthrow
(transitive, by extension) to fail, to be unsuccessful (in any endeavor)
Nedavne ekonomske mjere gradske skupštine su podbacile.
City council's recent economic measures failed.
(transitive, by extension) to come short, fall short, to fall flat, to miss the mark (fail to meet expectations)
(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	Future II	budem podbacio²	budeš podbacio²	bude podbacio²	budemo podbacili²	budete podbacili²	budu podbacili²
Past	Perfect	podbacio sam²	podbacio si²	podbacio je²	podbacili smo²	podbacili ste²	podbacili su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam podbacio²	bio si podbacio²	bio je podbacio²	bili smo podbacili²	bili ste podbacili²	bili su podbacili²
	Aorist	podbacih	podbaci	podbaci	podbacismo	podbaciste	podbaciše
Conditional I		podbacio bih²	podbacio bi²	podbacio bi²	podbacili bismo²	podbacili biste²	podbacili bi²
Conditional II		bio bih podbacio²	bio bi podbacio²	bio bi podbacio²	bili bismo podbacili²	bili biste podbacili²	bili 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. * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

(fail): iznevjeriti pf
(disappoint): razočarati pf

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