obiknuti
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- òbići (alternative infinitive)
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)
- (transitive) to accustom [with accusative ‘someone’ and na (+ accusative) ‘to something’]
- Synonym: nàviknuti
- (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