shvaćati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sxʋât͡ɕati/
  • Hyphenation: shva‧ća‧ti

Verb

shvȁćati impf (Cyrillic spelling схва̏ћати)

  1. (Croatia, transitive, intransitive) imperfective form of shvȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of shvaćati
Infinitive: shvaćati Present verbal adverb: shvȁćajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: shvȁćānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present shvaćam shvaćaš shvaća shvaćamo shvaćate shvaćaju
Future Future I shvaćat ću1
shvaćaću 		shvaćat ćeš1
shvaćaćeš 		shvaćat će1
shvaćaće 		shvaćat ćemo1
shvaćaćemo 		shvaćat ćete1
shvaćaćete 		shvaćat će1
shvaćaće
Future II bȕdēm shvaćao2 bȕdēš shvaćao2 bȕdē shvaćao2 bȕdēmo shvaćali2 bȕdēte shvaćali2 bȕdū shvaćali2
Past Perfect shvaćao sam2 shvaćao si2 shvaćao je2 shvaćali smo2 shvaćali ste2 shvaćali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam shvaćao2 bȉo si shvaćao2 bȉo je shvaćao2 bíli smo shvaćali2 bíli ste shvaćali2 bíli su shvaćali2
Imperfect shvaćah shvaćaše shvaćaše shvaćasmo shvaćaste shvaćahu
Conditional I shvaćao bih2 shvaćao bi2 shvaćao bi2 shvaćali bismo2 shvaćali biste2 shvaćali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih shvaćao2 bȉo bi shvaćao2 bȉo bi shvaćao2 bíli bismo shvaćali2 bíli biste shvaćali2 bíli bi shvaćali2
Imperative — shvaćaj — shvaćajmo shvaćajte —
Active past participle shvaćao m / shvaćala f / shvaćalo n shvaćali m / shvaćale f / shvaćala n
Passive past participle shvaćan m / shvaćana f / shvaćano n shvaćani m / shvaćane f / shvaćana 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.

References

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