cvasti

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sʋâsti/
  • Hyphenation: cva‧sti

Verb

cvȁsti impf (Cyrillic spelling цва̏сти)

  1. (intransitive, Croatia) to bloom, blossom, thrive
    Ove godine visibabe cvatu ranije nego obično. ― This year the snowdrops are blooming earlier than usual.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively, Croatia) to flourish, thrive, bloom
    Zapošljavaju još ljudi jer posao cvate. ― They are hiring more people because the business is thriving.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cvasti
Infinitive: cvasti Present verbal adverb: cvàtūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: cvàtnja
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present cvatem cvateš cvate cvatemo cvatete cvatu
Future Future I cvast ću1
cvašću 		cvast ćeš1
cvašćeš 		cvast će1
cvašće 		cvast ćemo1
cvašćemo 		cvast ćete1
cvašćete 		cvast će1
cvašće
Future II bȕdēm cvao2 bȕdēš cvao2 bȕdē cvao2 bȕdēmo cvali2 bȕdēte cvali2 bȕdū cvali2
Past Perfect cvao sam2 cvao si2 cvao je2 cvali smo2 cvali ste2 cvali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam cvao2 bȉo si cvao2 bȉo je cvao2 bíli smo cvali2 bíli ste cvali2 bíli su cvali2
Imperfect cvatijah cvatijaše cvatijaše cvatijasmo cvatijaste cvatijahu
Conditional I cvao bih2 cvao bi2 cvao bi2 cvali bismo2 cvali biste2 cvali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih cvao2 bȉo bi cvao2 bȉo bi cvao2 bíli bismo cvali2 bíli biste cvali2 bíli bi cvali2
Imperative — cvati — cvatimo cvatite —
Active past participle cvao m / cvala f / cvalo n cvali m / cvale f / cvala 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.

Synonyms

Wikious
Boobota
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