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biti

Pronunciation: /bîti/

“biti” is a Serbo-Croatian word. Its 10 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to be, to exist
  2. Used to connect a noun to an adjective or passive past participle that describes it (equivalent to all English senses and functions as a copula; subject having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified.)
  3. Used as an auxiliary verb in the present to form near future tense; similar to English going to.
  4. Used as an auxiliary verb to form compound verb tenses (perfect, pluperfect, future perfect, conditional) together with the active past participle.
  5. Used to form the passive voice together with the passive past participle of the main verb.
  6. Used to form a question, usually a polar one.
  7. Used to indicate a general condition, such as weather, worth or value.
  8. to equal, to total, to add up to (indicates the equivalence of values)
  9. Used to express a premonition; there will be, there is going to be, to be coming
  10. to beat, hit, strike

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *byti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bū́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

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