toviti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toviti, *tyti (Russian тыть (tytʹ), Polish tyć).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tǒʋiti/
  • Hyphenation: to‧vi‧ti

Verb

tòviti impf (Cyrillic spelling то̀вити)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to fatten (animals, poultry)

Conjugation

Conjugation of toviti
Infinitive: toviti Present verbal adverb: tòvēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: tòvljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present tovim toviš tovi tovimo tovite tove
Future Future I tovit ću1
toviću 		tovit ćeš1
tovićeš 		tovit će1
toviće 		tovit ćemo1
tovićemo 		tovit ćete1
tovićete 		tovit će1
toviće
Future II bȕdēm tovio2 bȕdēš tovio2 bȕdē tovio2 bȕdēmo tovili2 bȕdēte tovili2 bȕdū tovili2
Past Perfect tovio sam2 tovio si2 tovio je2 tovili smo2 tovili ste2 tovili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam tovio2 bȉo si tovio2 bȉo je tovio2 bíli smo tovili2 bíli ste tovili2 bíli su tovili2
Imperfect tovljah tovljaše tovljaše tovljasmo tovljaste tovljahu
Conditional I tovio bih2 tovio bi2 tovio bi2 tovili bismo2 tovili biste2 tovili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih tovio2 bȉo bi tovio2 bȉo bi tovio2 bíli bismo tovili2 bíli biste tovili2 bíli bi tovili2
Imperative — tovi — tovimo tovite —
Active past participle tovio m / tovila f / tovilo n tovili m / tovile f / tovila n
Passive past participle tovljen m / tovljena f / tovljeno n tovljeni m / tovljene f / tovljena 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

  • “toviti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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