spavati
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
See Serbo-Croatian spati pf
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spǎːʋati/
- Hyphenation: spa‧va‧ti
Verb
spávati impf (Cyrillic spelling спа́вати)
- (intransitive) to sleep
- (intransitive, formally) to have sex (+ s, sa (“with”) + instrumental)
Conjugation
Conjugation of spavati
Infinitive: spavati | Present verbal adverb: spávajūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: spávānje | ||||
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
Present | spavam | spavaš | spava | spavamo | spavate | spavaju | |
Future | Future I | spavat ću1 spavaću | spavat ćeš1 spavaćeš | spavat će1 spavaće | spavat ćemo1 spavaćemo | spavat ćete1 spavaćete | spavat će1 spavaće |
Future II | budem spavao2 | budeš spavao2 | bude spavao2 | budemo spavali2 | budete spavali2 | budu spavali2 | |
Past | Perfect | spavao sam2 | spavao si2 | spavao je2 | spavali smo2 | spavali ste2 | spavali su2 |
Pluperfect3 | bio sam spavao2 | bio si spavao2 | bio je spavao2 | bili smo spavali2 | bili ste spavali2 | bili su spavali2 | |
Imperfect | spavah | spavaše | spavaše | spavasmo | spavaste | spavahu | |
Conditional I | spavao bih2 | spavao bi2 | spavao bi2 | spavali bismo2 | spavali biste2 | spavali bi2 | |
Conditional II | bio bih spavao2 | bio bi spavao2 | bio bi spavao2 | bili bismo spavali2 | bili biste spavali2 | bili bi spavali2 | |
Imperative | — | spavaj | — | spavajmo | spavajte | — | |
Active past participle | spavao m / spavala f / spavalo n | spavali m / spavale f / spavala 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. * 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. |
Derived terms
- prespávati
- prospávati
- uspávati