sijevati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Akin to Slovene sevati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sijěːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: si‧je‧va‧ti

Verb

sijévati impf (Cyrillic spelling сије́вати)

  1. (intransitive) to flash, to light up (chiefly referring to lightning)
    s(ij)eva ― there is lightning
    munje s(ij)evaju ― the lightning flashes
  2. (intransitive) to twinkle, shimmer, blink
    noževi su s(ij)evali ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. (intransitive) to move rapidly (of a punch)
    šaka je s(ij)evnula ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sijevati
Infinitive: sijevati Present verbal adverb: sijévajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: sijévānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present sijevam sijevaš sijeva sijevamo sijevate sijevaju
Future Future I sijevat ću1
sijevaću 		sijevat ćeš1
sijevaćeš 		sijevat će1
sijevaće 		sijevat ćemo1
sijevaćemo 		sijevat ćete1
sijevaćete 		sijevat će1
sijevaće
Future II bȕdēm sijevao2 bȕdēš sijevao2 bȕdē sijevao2 bȕdēmo sijevali2 bȕdēte sijevali2 bȕdū sijevali2
Past Perfect sijevao sam2 sijevao si2 sijevao je2 sijevali smo2 sijevali ste2 sijevali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam sijevao2 bȉo si sijevao2 bȉo je sijevao2 bíli smo sijevali2 bíli ste sijevali2 bíli su sijevali2
Imperfect sijevah sijevaše sijevaše sijevasmo sijevaste sijevahu
Conditional I sijevao bih2 sijevao bi2 sijevao bi2 sijevali bismo2 sijevali biste2 sijevali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih sijevao2 bȉo bi sijevao2 bȉo bi sijevao2 bíli bismo sijevali2 bíli biste sijevali2 bíli bi sijevali2
Imperative — sijevaj — sijevajmo sijevajte —
Active past participle sijevao m / sijevala f / sijevalo n sijevali m / sijevale f / sijevala 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

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