spevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /spêʋati/
  • Hyphenation: spe‧va‧ti

Verb

spȅvati pf (Cyrillic spelling спе̏вати)

  1. (transitive) to compose (a poem), to write verse

Conjugation
Conjugation of spevati
Infinitive: spevati Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: spȅvāvši Verbal noun: —
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present spevam spevaš speva spevamo spevate spevaju
Future Future I spevat ću1
spevaću		 spevat ćeš1
spevaćeš		 spevat će1
spevaće		 spevat ćemo1
spevaćemo		 spevat ćete1
spevaćete		 spevat će1
spevaće
Future II bȕdēm spevao2 bȕdēš spevao2 bȕdē spevao2 bȕdēmo spevali2 bȕdēte spevali2 bȕdū spevali2
Past Perfect spevao sam2 spevao si2 spevao je2 spevali smo2 spevali ste2 spevali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam spevao2 bȉo si spevao2 bȉo je spevao2 bíli smo spevali2 bíli ste spevali2 bíli su spevali2
Aorist spevah speva speva spevasmo spevaste spevaše
Conditional I spevao bih2 spevao bi2 spevao bi2 spevali bismo2 spevali biste2 spevali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih spevao2 bȉo bi spevao2 bȉo bi spevao2 bíli bismo spevali2 bíli biste spevali2 bíli bi spevali2
Imperative — spevaj — spevajmo spevajte —
Active past participle spevao m / spevala f / spevalo n spevali m / spevale f / spevala n
Passive past participle spevan m / spevana f / spevano n spevani m / spevane f / spevana 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.

  • spevávati impf
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