spasiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Bosnian, Serbian): spásti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /spǎːsiti/
Hyphenation: spa‧si‧ti

Verb

spásiti pf (Cyrillic spelling спа́сити)

(transitive, Croatia, reflexive) to save, salvage (to help someone to survive)
(transitive, Croatia, reflexive) to rescue

Conjugation

Conjugation of spasiti

Infinitive: spasiti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: spásīvši		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		spasim	spasiš	spasi	spasimo	spasite	spase
Future	Future I	spasit ću¹ spasiću	spasit ćeš¹ spasićeš	spasit će¹ spasiće	spasit ćemo¹ spasićemo	spasit ćete¹ spasićete	spasit će¹ spasiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm spasio²	bȕdēš spasio²	bȕdē spasio²	bȕdēmo spasili²	bȕdēte spasili²	bȕdū spasili²
Past	Perfect	spasio sam²	spasio si²	spasio je²	spasili smo²	spasili ste²	spasili su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam spasio²	bio si spasio²	bio je spasio²	bili smo spasili²	bili ste spasili²	bili su spasili²
	Aorist	spasih	spasi	spasi	spasismo	spasiste	spasiše
Conditional I		spasio bih²	spasio bi²	spasio bi²	spasili bismo²	spasili biste²	spasili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih spasio²	bio bi spasio²	bio bi spasio²	bili bismo spasili²	bili biste spasili²	bili bi spasili²
Imperative		—	spasi	—	spasimo	spasite	—
Active past participle		spasio m / spasila f / spasilo n			spasili m / spasile f / spasila n
Passive past participle		spašen m / spašena f / spašeno n			spašeni m / spašene f / spašena 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 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

spašávati / spasávati impf
spasilac

References

“spasiti” in Hrvatski jezični portal
“spasiti”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), volume V, Друго фототипско издање edition, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 925

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