pevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

pjȅvati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pěti, *pěvati. See Slovene peti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pêʋati/
Hyphenation: pe‧va‧ti

Verb

pȅvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пе̏вати)

(transitive, intransitive) to sing

Conjugation

Conjugation of pevati

Infinitive: pevati		Present verbal adverb: pȅvajūći		Past verbal adverb: pevavši		Verbal noun: pȅvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pevam	pevaš	peva	pevamo	pevate	pevaju
Future	Future I	pevat ću¹ pevaću	pevat ćeš¹ pevaćeš	pevat će¹ pevaće	pevat ćemo¹ pevaćemo	pevat ćete¹ pevaćete	pevat će¹ pevaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm pevao²	bȕdēš pevao²	bȕdē pevao²	bȕdēmo pevali²	bȕdēte pevali²	bȕdū pevali²
Past	Perfect	pevao sam²	pevao si²	pevao je²	pevali smo²	pevali ste²	pevali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam pevao²	bȉo si pevao²	bȉo je pevao²	bíli smo pevali²	bíli ste pevali²	bíli su pevali²
	Imperfect	pevah	pevaše	pevaše	pevasmo	pevaste	pevahu
Conditional I		pevao bih²	pevao bi²	pevao bi²	pevali bismo²	pevali biste²	pevali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih pevao²	bȉo bi pevao²	bȉo bi pevao²	bíli bismo pevali²	bíli biste pevali²	bíli bi pevali²
Imperative		—	pevaj	—	pevajmo	pevajte	—
Active past participle		pevao m / pevala f / pevalo n			pevali m / pevale f / pevala n
Passive past participle		pevan m / pevana f / pevano n			pevani m / pevane f / pevana n
¹ Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. ² For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. ³ Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. ⁴ Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

nàtpevati
pevač
prìpevati
pròpevati
spȅvati
zàpevati
ìspevati
òpevati
òtpevati
ùpevati

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