savijati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saʋǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧vi‧ja‧ti

Verb

savíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling сави́јати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to bend
  2. (transitive, reflexive) to fold
  3. (transitive, reflexive) to roll, curl

Conjugation

Conjugation of savijati
Infinitive: savijati Present verbal adverb: savíjajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: savíjānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present savijam savijaš savija savijamo savijate savijaju
Future Future I savijat ću1
savijaću 		savijat ćeš1
savijaćeš 		savijat će1
savijaće 		savijat ćemo1
savijaćemo 		savijat ćete1
savijaćete 		savijat će1
savijaće
Future II bȕdēm savijao2 bȕdēš savijao2 bȕdē savijao2 bȕdēmo savijali2 bȕdēte savijali2 bȕdū savijali2
Past Perfect savijao sam2 savijao si2 savijao je2 savijali smo2 savijali ste2 savijali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam savijao2 bȉo si savijao2 bȉo je savijao2 bíli smo savijali2 bíli ste savijali2 bíli su savijali2
Imperfect savijah savijaše savijaše savijasmo savijaste savijahu
Conditional I savijao bih2 savijao bi2 savijao bi2 savijali bismo2 savijali biste2 savijali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih savijao2 bȉo bi savijao2 bȉo bi savijao2 bíli bismo savijali2 bíli biste savijali2 bíli bi savijali2
Imperative — savijaj — savijajmo savijajte —
Active past participle savijao m / savijala f / savijalo n savijali m / savijale f / savijala n
Passive past participle savijan m / savijana f / savijano n savijani m / savijane f / savijana 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

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