podbaciti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

pod- + baciti

Pronunciation

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

Verb

podbáciti pf (Cyrillic spelling подба́цити)

  1. (transitive) to underthrow
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive, by extension) to come short, fall short, to fall flat, to miss the mark (fail to meet expectations)
  4. (archaic) to miscarry

Conjugation

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