smanjivati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smaɲǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: sma‧nji‧va‧ti

Verb

smanjívati impf (Cyrillic spelling смањи́вати)

  1. (transitive) to reduce, lessen, make smaller (in size or volume, also figuratively)

Conjugation

Conjugation of smanjivati
Infinitive: smanjivati Present verbal adverb: smànjujūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: smanjívānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present smanjujem smanjuješ smanjuje smanjujemo smanjujete smanjuju
Future Future I smanjivat ću1
smanjivaću 		smanjivat ćeš1
smanjivaćeš 		smanjivat će1
smanjivaće 		smanjivat ćemo1
smanjivaćemo 		smanjivat ćete1
smanjivaćete 		smanjivat će1
smanjivaće
Future II bȕdēm smanjivao2 bȕdēš smanjivao2 bȕdē smanjivao2 bȕdēmo smanjivali2 bȕdēte smanjivali2 bȕdū smanjivali2
Past Perfect smanjivao sam2 smanjivao si2 smanjivao je2 smanjivali smo2 smanjivali ste2 smanjivali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam smanjivao2 bȉo si smanjivao2 bȉo je smanjivao2 bíli smo smanjivali2 bíli ste smanjivali2 bíli su smanjivali2
Imperfect smanjivah smanjivaše smanjivaše smanjivasmo smanjivaste smanjivahu
Conditional I smanjivao bih2 smanjivao bi2 smanjivao bi2 smanjivali bismo2 smanjivali biste2 smanjivali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih smanjivao2 bȉo bi smanjivao2 bȉo bi smanjivao2 bíli bismo smanjivali2 bíli biste smanjivali2 bíli bi smanjivali2
Imperative — smanjuj — smanjujmo smanjujte —
Active past participle smanjivao m / smanjivala f / smanjivalo n smanjivali m / smanjivale f / smanjivala n
Passive past participle smanjivan m / smanjivana f / smanjivano n smanjivani m / smanjivane f / smanjivana 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

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