sačuvati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sa- +‎ čuvati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sat͡ʃǔːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ču‧va‧ti

Verb

sačúvati pf (Cyrillic spelling сачу́вати)

  1. (transitive) to save, preserve, conserve
  2. (transitive) to maintain (peace, order, spirit)
  3. (transitive) to retain (thing as a property)
  4. (transitive, computing, chiefly Serbia, Bosnia) to save (to write a file to a disk)
    Synonyms: snimiti, spremiti, pohraniti, memorirati, memorisati

Conjugation

Conjugation of sačuvati
Infinitive: sačuvati Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: sačúvāvši 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 sačuvam sačuvaš sačuva sačuvamo sačuvate sačuvaju
Future Future I sačuvat ću1
sačuvaću 		sačuvat ćeš1
sačuvaćeš 		sačuvat će1
sačuvaće 		sačuvat ćemo1
sačuvaćemo 		sačuvat ćete1
sačuvaćete 		sačuvat će1
sačuvaće
Future II bȕdēm sačuvao2 bȕdēš sačuvao2 bȕdē sačuvao2 bȕdēmo sačuvali2 bȕdēte sačuvali2 bȕdū sačuvali2
Past Perfect sačuvao sam2 sačuvao si2 sačuvao je2 sačuvali smo2 sačuvali ste2 sačuvali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam sačuvao2 bȉo si sačuvao2 bȉo je sačuvao2 bíli smo sačuvali2 bíli ste sačuvali2 bíli su sačuvali2
Aorist sačuvah sačuva sačuva sačuvasmo sačuvaste sačuvaše
Conditional I sačuvao bih2 sačuvao bi2 sačuvao bi2 sačuvali bismo2 sačuvali biste2 sačuvali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih sačuvao2 bȉo bi sačuvao2 bȉo bi sačuvao2 bíli bismo sačuvali2 bíli biste sačuvali2 bíli bi sačuvali2
Imperative — sačuvaj — sačuvajmo sačuvajte —
Active past participle sačuvao m / sačuvala f / sačuvalo n sačuvali m / sačuvale f / sačuvala n
Passive past participle sačuvan m / sačuvana f / sačuvano n sačuvani m / sačuvane f / sačuvana 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.

Further reading

  • “sačuvati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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