pjevati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pěti, *pěvati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pjêʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pje‧va‧ti

Verb

pjȅvati impf (Cyrillic spelling пје̏вати)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to sing

Conjugation

Conjugation of pjevati
Infinitive: pjevati Present verbal adverb: pjȅvajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pjȅvānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pjevam pjevaš pjeva pjevamo pjevate pjevaju
Future Future I pjevat ću1
pjevaću 		pjevat ćeš1
pjevaćeš 		pjevat će1
pjevaće 		pjevat ćemo1
pjevaćemo 		pjevat ćete1
pjevaćete 		pjevat će1
pjevaće
Future II bȕdēm pjevao2 bȕdēš pjevao2 bȕdē pjevao2 bȕdēmo pjevali2 bȕdēte pjevali2 bȕdū pjevali2
Past Perfect pjevao sam2 pjevao si2 pjevao je2 pjevali smo2 pjevali ste2 pjevali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pjevao2 bȉo si pjevao2 bȉo je pjevao2 bíli smo pjevali2 bíli ste pjevali2 bíli su pjevali2
Imperfect pjevah pjevaše pjevaše pjevasmo pjevaste pjevahu
Conditional I pjevao bih2 pjevao bi2 pjevao bi2 pjevali bismo2 pjevali biste2 pjevali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pjevao2 bȉo bi pjevao2 bȉo bi pjevao2 bíli bismo pjevali2 bíli biste pjevali2 bíli bi pjevali2
Imperative — pjevaj — pjevajmo pjevajte —
Active past participle pjevao m / pjevala f / pjevalo n pjevali m / pjevale f / pjevala n
Passive past participle pjevan m / pjevana f / pjevano n pjevani m / pjevane f / pjevana 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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