delovati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dȅlati +‎ -ovati. Compare with Pannonian Rusyn дїловац (djilovac).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dêloʋati/
  • Hyphenation: de‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

dȅlovati impf (Cyrillic spelling де̏ловати)

  1. (intransitive) to work, perform, function, operate
  2. (intransitive) to seem, act as if
  3. (intransitive) to influence, affect, act on (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of delovati
Infinitive: delovati Present verbal adverb: dȅlujūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: dȅlovānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present delujem deluješ deluje delujemo delujete deluju
Future Future I delovat ću1
delovaću 		delovat ćeš1
delovaćeš 		delovat će1
delovaće 		delovat ćemo1
delovaćemo 		delovat ćete1
delovaćete 		delovat će1
delovaće
Future II bȕdēm delovao2 bȕdēš delovao2 bȕdē delovao2 bȕdēmo delovali2 bȕdēte delovali2 bȕdū delovali2
Past Perfect delovao sam2 delovao si2 delovao je2 delovali smo2 delovali ste2 delovali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam delovao2 bȉo si delovao2 bȉo je delovao2 bíli smo delovali2 bíli ste delovali2 bíli su delovali2
Imperfect delovah delovaše delovaše delovasmo delovaste delovahu
Conditional I delovao bih2 delovao bi2 delovao bi2 delovali bismo2 delovali biste2 delovali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih delovao2 bȉo bi delovao2 bȉo bi delovao2 bíli bismo delovali2 bíli biste delovali2 bíli bi delovali2
Imperative — deluj — delujmo delujte —
Active past participle delovao m / delovala f / delovalo n delovali m / delovale f / delovala 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.

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