obiknuti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obvyknǫti. Compare archaic Russian обы́кнуть (obýknutʹ, to get used to). By surface analysis, ob- +‎ -viknuti, as in synonymous nàviknuti, prìviknuti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǒbiknuti/

Verb

òbiknuti pf (Cyrillic spelling о̀бикнути)

  1. (transitive) to accustom [with accusative ‘someone’ and na (+ accusative) ‘to something’]
    Synonym: nàviknuti
  2. (reflexive) to accustom oneself, to get used [with na (+ accusative) ‘to someone/something’]
    Synonym: nàviknuti

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • obiknuti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • obiknuti”, in Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga standardnog jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2015
  • Stjepan Vukušić, Ivan Zoročić, Marija Grasselli-Vukušić (2007), “òbiknuti se”, in Naglasak u hrvatskome književnom jeziku [Accent in the Croatian Literary Language] (Velika hrvatska gramatika; book 4) (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Nakladni Zavod Globus, page 432