služiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služìti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /slǔːʒiti/
Hyphenation: slu‧ži‧ti

Verb

slúžiti impf (Cyrillic spelling слу́жити)

(transitive) to serve (guests, purpose etc.)
(reflexive) to make use of, use
(reflexive) to help oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of služiti

Infinitive: služiti		Present verbal adverb: slúžēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: slúžēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		služim	služiš	služi	služimo	služite	služe
Future	Future I	služit ću¹ služiću	služit ćeš¹ služićeš	služit će¹ služiće	služit ćemo¹ služićemo	služit ćete¹ služićete	služit će¹ služiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm služio²	bȕdēš služio²	bȕdē služio²	bȕdēmo služili²	bȕdēte služili²	bȕdū služili²
Past	Perfect	služio sam²	služio si²	služio je²	služili smo²	služili ste²	služili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam služio²	bȉo si služio²	bȉo je služio²	bíli smo služili²	bíli ste služili²	bíli su služili²
	Imperfect	služah	služaše	služaše	služasmo	služaste	služahu
Conditional I		služio bih²	služio bi²	služio bi²	služili bismo²	služili biste²	služili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih služio²	bȉo bi služio²	bȉo bi služio²	bíli bismo služili²	bíli biste služili²	bíli bi služili²
Imperative		—	služi	—	služimo	služite	—
Active past participle		služio m / služila f / služilo n			služili m / služile f / služila n
Passive past participle		služen m / služena f / služeno n			služeni m / služene f / služena 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

slùžba