Verb Prefixes in Serbian

Prefix	Denotes	Srpski	English	Srpski	English	Srpski	English	Srpski	English
		biti	to beat	dati	to give	pasti	to fall	pisati	to write
do-	completion, reaching destination, addition			dodati	to add	dopasti	show up, get into	dopisati	to correspond, add
iz-, is-	exit	izbiti	to knock out	izdati	to issue	ispasti	to fall out	ispisati	to cover with writing, copy
na-	completion, partial action, quantity, placing on	nabiti	to jam			napasti	to attack	napisati	to write
nad-	superiority, above	nadbiti	to overcome
ne-	not
o-, ob-	around, surrounding, touching, perfecting	obiti	to force, break into	odati	to reveal	opasti	to fall	opisati	to describe
od-, ot-	from	odbiti	to knock off			otpasti	to fall off	otpisati	to write off
po-	completion, beginning	pobiti	to kill			popasti	to fall	popisati	to list
pod-, pot-	under, underhand					potpasti	to fall under	potpisati	to sign
pre-	across	prebiti	to break	predati	to deliver	prepasti	to attack, frighten	prepisati	to copy
pred-	in front
pri-	addition	pribiti	to nail	pridati	to add	pripasti	to fall, belong to	pripisati	to write down, attribute
pro-	through, completed	probiti	to break through	prodati	to sell	propasti	to fall through	propisati	to issue
raz-	dispersion	razbiti	to smash	razdati	to hand out	raspasti	to fall apart	raspisati	to announce
s-, sa-, su-	together, down from	sabiti	to compress
u-	into	ubiti	to kill	udati	to marry off	upasti	to fall into	upisati	to write in
uz-	into
za-	begin, cover up, error	zabiti	to pound in			zapasti	to fall into	zapisati	to note, record