sviđati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʋǐːd͡ʑati/
  • Hyphenation: svi‧đa‧ti

Verb

svíđati impf (Cyrillic spelling сви́ђати)

  1. (reflexive, with dative) to like, please
    Sviđala im se nova r(ij)eč.
    They liked the new word.
    kako vam se sviđa
    what you like (Shakespeare)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sviđati
Infinitive: sviđati Present verbal adverb: svíđajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: svíđānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present sviđam sviđaš sviđa sviđamo sviđate sviđaju
Future Future I sviđat ću1
sviđaću 		sviđat ćeš1
sviđaćeš 		sviđat će1
sviđaće 		sviđat ćemo1
sviđaćemo 		sviđat ćete1
sviđaćete 		sviđat će1
sviđaće
Future II bȕdēm sviđao2 bȕdēš sviđao2 bȕdē sviđao2 bȕdēmo sviđali2 bȕdēte sviđali2 bȕdū sviđali2
Past Perfect sviđao sam2 sviđao si2 sviđao je2 sviđali smo2 sviđali ste2 sviđali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam sviđao2 bȉo si sviđao2 bȉo je sviđao2 bíli smo sviđali2 bíli ste sviđali2 bíli su sviđali2
Imperfect sviđah sviđaše sviđaše sviđasmo sviđaste sviđahu
Conditional I sviđao bih2 sviđao bi2 sviđao bi2 sviđali bismo2 sviđali biste2 sviđali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih sviđao2 bȉo bi sviđao2 bȉo bi sviđao2 bíli bismo sviđali2 bíli biste sviđali2 bíli bi sviđali2
Imperative — sviđaj — sviđajmo sviđajte —
Active past participle sviđao m / sviđala f / sviđalo n sviđali m / sviđale f / sviđala 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.

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