sprečavati
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spretʃǎːʋati/
- Hyphenation: spre‧ča‧va‧ti
Verb
sprečávati impf (Cyrillic spelling спреча́вати)
- (transitive) to prevent
- (transitive) to avert
- (transitive) to thwart
Conjugation
Conjugation of sprečavati
Infinitive: sprečavati | Present verbal adverb: sprečávajūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: sprečávānje | ||||
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
Present | sprečavam | sprečavaš | sprečava | sprečavamo | sprečavate | sprečavaju | |
Future | Future I | sprečavat ću1 sprečavaću | sprečavat ćeš1 sprečavaćeš | sprečavat će1 sprečavaće | sprečavat ćemo1 sprečavaćemo | sprečavat ćete1 sprečavaćete | sprečavat će1 sprečavaće |
Future II | budem sprečavao2 | budeš sprečavao2 | bude sprečavao2 | budemo sprečavali2 | budete sprečavali2 | budu sprečavali2 | |
Past | Perfect | sprečavao sam2 | sprečavao si2 | sprečavao je2 | sprečavali smo2 | sprečavali ste2 | sprečavali su2 |
Pluperfect3 | bio sam sprečavao2 | bio si sprečavao2 | bio je sprečavao2 | bili smo sprečavali2 | bili ste sprečavali2 | bili su sprečavali2 | |
Imperfect | sprečavah | sprečavaše | sprečavaše | sprečavasmo | sprečavaste | sprečavahu | |
Conditional I | sprečavao bih2 | sprečavao bi2 | sprečavao bi2 | sprečavali bismo2 | sprečavali biste2 | sprečavali bi2 | |
Conditional II | bio bih sprečavao2 | bio bi sprečavao2 | bio bi sprečavao2 | bili bismo sprečavali2 | bili biste sprečavali2 | bili bi sprečavali2 | |
Imperative | — | sprečavaj | — | sprečavajmo | sprečavajte | — | |
Active past participle | sprečavao m / sprečavala f / sprečavalo n | sprečavali m / sprečavale f / sprečavala n | |||||
Passive past participle | sprečavan m / sprečavana f / sprečavano n | sprečavani m / sprečavane f / sprečavana 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. |
Related terms
- sprijéčiti / spréčiti pf