saviti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sàviti pf (Cyrillic spelling са̀вити)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of saviti
Infinitive: saviti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: sàvīvši 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 savijem saviješ savije savijemo savijete saviju
Future Future I savit ću1
saviću 		savit ćeš1
savićeš 		savit će1
saviće 		savit ćemo1
savićemo 		savit ćete1
savićete 		savit će1
saviće
Future II bȕdēm savio2 bȕdēš savio2 bȕdē savio2 bȕdēmo savili2 bȕdēte savili2 bȕdū savili2
Past Perfect savio sam2 savio si2 savio je2 savili smo2 savili ste2 savili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam savio2 bȉo si savio2 bȉo je savio2 bíli smo savili2 bíli ste savili2 bíli su savili2
Aorist savih savi savi savismo saviste saviše
Conditional I savio bih2 savio bi2 savio bi2 savili bismo2 savili biste2 savili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih savio2 bȉo bi savio2 bȉo bi savio2 bíli bismo savili2 bíli biste savili2 bíli bi savili2
Imperative — savij — savijmo savijte —
Active past participle savio m / savila f / savilo n savili m / savile f / savila n
Passive past participle savijen / savit m / savijena / savita f / savijeno / savito n savijeni / saviti m / savijene / savite f / savijena / savita 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

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