slaviti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slaviti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slâʋiti/
  • Hyphenation: sla‧vi‧ti

Verb

slȁviti impf (Cyrillic spelling сла̏вити)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to celebrate, glorify

Conjugation

Conjugation of slaviti
Infinitive: slaviti Present verbal adverb: slȁvēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: slȁvljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present slavim slaviš slavi slavimo slavite slave
Future Future I slavit ću1
slaviću 		slavit ćeš1
slavićeš 		slavit će1
slaviće 		slavit ćemo1
slavićemo 		slavit ćete1
slavićete 		slavit će1
slaviće
Future II bȕdēm slavio2 bȕdēš slavio2 bȕdē slavio2 bȕdēmo slavili2 bȕdēte slavili2 bȕdū slavili2
Past Perfect slavio sam2 slavio si2 slavio je2 slavili smo2 slavili ste2 slavili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam slavio2 bȉo si slavio2 bȉo je slavio2 bíli smo slavili2 bíli ste slavili2 bíli su slavili2
Imperfect slavljah slavljaše slavljaše slavljasmo slavljaste slavljahu
Conditional I slavio bih2 slavio bi2 slavio bi2 slavili bismo2 slavili biste2 slavili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih slavio2 bȉo bi slavio2 bȉo bi slavio2 bíli bismo slavili2 bíli biste slavili2 bíli bi slavili2
Imperative — slavi — slavimo slavite —
Active past participle slavio m / slavila f / slavilo n slavili m / slavile f / slavila n
Passive past participle slavljen m / slavljena f / slavljeno n slavljeni m / slavljene f / slavljena 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.

Derived terms

Further reading

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