zvati

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See also: zváti and žváti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zъvati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zʋâti/
  • Hyphenation: zva‧ti

Verb

zvȁti impf (Cyrillic spelling зва̏ти)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to call, to be called
    Kako se zoveš? Zovem se Petar. ― What is your name? My name is Peter. (literally, “What do you call yourself? I call myself Peter.”)
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to summon
  3. (transitive, intransitive) to call, invite (as a guest, or on the phone)
    zvati na telefon ― to call on the phone
  4. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) to decide, call
    Meni je svejedno, ti zovi gdje idemo na kraju.
    It's all the same to me, you decide where we are going in the end.

Conjugation

Conjugation of zvati
Infinitive: zvati Present verbal adverb: zòvūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zvȃnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zovem zoveš zove zovemo zovete zovu
Future Future I zvat ću1
zvaću 		zvat ćeš1
zvaćeš 		zvat će1
zvaće 		zvat ćemo1
zvaćemo 		zvat ćete1
zvaćete 		zvat će1
zvaće
Future II bȕdēm zvao2 bȕdēš zvao2 bȕdē zvao2 bȕdēmo zvali2 bȕdēte zvali2 bȕdū zvali2
Past Perfect zvao sam2 zvao si2 zvao je2 zvali smo2 zvali ste2 zvali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zvao2 bȉo si zvao2 bȉo je zvao2 bíli smo zvali2 bíli ste zvali2 bíli su zvali2
Imperfect zvah zvaše zvaše zvasmo zvaste zvahu
Conditional I zvao bih2 zvao bi2 zvao bi2 zvali bismo2 zvali biste2 zvali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zvao2 bȉo bi zvao2 bȉo bi zvao2 bíli bismo zvali2 bíli biste zvali2 bíli bi zvali2
Imperative — zovi — zovimo zovite —
Active past participle zvao m / zvala f / zvalo n zvali m / zvale f / zvala n
Passive past participle zvan m / zvana f / zvano n zvani m / zvane f / zvana 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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *zъvati.

Pronunciation

Verb

zváti impf

  1. to call
  2. to call, to name

Inflection

infinitive zváti
1st singular zóvem
infinitive zváti zvȁt
supine zvȃt
verbal noun zvānje
participle converb
present — —
past zván —
l-participle masculine feminine neuter
singular zvȃł zvála zvȃlo
dual zvȃla zvȃli zvȃli
plural zvȃli zvȃle zvȃla
present imperative
1st singular zóvem —
2nd singular zóveš zóvi
3rd singular zóve —
1st dual zóveva zovȋva
2nd dual zóveta zovȋta
3rd dual zóveta —
1st plural zóvemo zovȋmo
2nd plural zóvete zovȋte
3rd plural zóvejo —

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