shvaćati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Bosnia, Serbia): shvȁtati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sxʋâtɕati/
Hyphenation: shva‧ća‧ti

Verb

shvȁćati impf (Cyrillic spelling схва̏ћати)

(Croatia, transitive, intransitive) imperfective form of shvȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of shvaćati

Infinitive: shvaćati		Present verbal adverb: shvȁćajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: shvȁćānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		shvaćam	shvaćaš	shvaća	shvaćamo	shvaćate	shvaćaju
Future	Future I	shvaćat ću¹ shvaćaću	shvaćat ćeš¹ shvaćaćeš	shvaćat će¹ shvaćaće	shvaćat ćemo¹ shvaćaćemo	shvaćat ćete¹ shvaćaćete	shvaćat će¹ shvaćaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm shvaćao²	bȕdēš shvaćao²	bȕdē shvaćao²	bȕdēmo shvaćali²	bȕdēte shvaćali²	bȕdū shvaćali²
Past	Perfect	shvaćao sam²	shvaćao si²	shvaćao je²	shvaćali smo²	shvaćali ste²	shvaćali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam shvaćao²	bio si shvaćao²	bio je shvaćao²	bili smo shvaćali²	bili ste shvaćali²	bili su shvaćali²
	Imperfect	shvaćah	shvaćaše	shvaćaše	shvaćasmo	shvaćaste	shvaćahu
Conditional I		shvaćao bih²	shvaćao bi²	shvaćao bi²	shvaćali bismo²	shvaćali biste²	shvaćali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bio bih shvaćao²	bio bi shvaćao²	bio bi shvaćao²	bili bismo shvaćali²	bili biste shvaćali²	bili bi shvaćali²
Imperative		—	shvaćaj	—	shvaćajmo	shvaćajte	—
Active past participle		shvaćao m / shvaćala f / shvaćalo n			shvaćali m / shvaćale f / shvaćala n
Passive past participle		shvaćan m / shvaćana f / shvaćano n			shvaćani m / shvaćane f / shvaćana 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 have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

References

“shvaćati” in Hrvatski jezični portal