uzeti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъzęti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ùzēti pf (Cyrillic spelling у̀зе̄ти)

(transitive) to take (grasp with hands)
(transitive) to take (grab and move to oneself)
(transitive) to take (carry, particularly to a particular destination)
(transitive) to take (ingest medicine, drugs, etc. )
(transitive) to take (assume or interpret to be)
(transitive) to take (enroll in a class, or a course of study)
(transitive) to take (to deprive someone of something)
(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	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

Related terms

ùzimati impf

References

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