žvakati
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *žъvàti
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒʋǎːkati/
- Hyphenation: žva‧ka‧ti
Verb
žvákati impf (Cyrillic spelling жва́кати)
- (transitive, intransitive) to chew
- (intransitive) to speak slowly and incoherently
Conjugation
Conjugation of žvakati
| Infinitive: žvakati | Present verbal adverb: žváčūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: žvákānje | ||||
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | žvačem | žvačeš | žvače | žvačemo | žvačete | žvaču | |
| Future | Future I | žvakat ću1 žvakaću | žvakat ćeš1 žvakaćeš | žvakat će1 žvakaće | žvakat ćemo1 žvakaćemo | žvakat ćete1 žvakaćete | žvakat će1 žvakaće |
| Future II | budem žvakao2 | budeš žvakao2 | bude žvakao2 | budemo žvakali2 | budete žvakali2 | budu žvakali2 | |
| Past | Perfect | žvakao sam2 | žvakao si2 | žvakao je2 | žvakali smo2 | žvakali ste2 | žvakali su2 |
| Pluperfect3 | bio sam žvakao2 | bio si žvakao2 | bio je žvakao2 | bili smo žvakali2 | bili ste žvakali2 | bili su žvakali2 | |
| Imperfect | žvakah | žvakaše | žvakaše | žvakasmo | žvakaste | žvakahu | |
| Conditional I | žvakao bih2 | žvakao bi2 | žvakao bi2 | žvakali bismo2 | žvakali biste2 | žvakali bi2 | |
| Conditional II | bio bih žvakao2 | bio bi žvakao2 | bio bi žvakao2 | bili bismo žvakali2 | bili biste žvakali2 | bili bi žvakali2 | |
| Imperative | — | žvači | — | žvačimo | žvačite | — | |
| Active past participle | žvakao m / žvakala f / žvakalo n | žvakali m / žvakale f / žvakala n | |||||
| Passive past participle | žvakan m / žvakana f / žvakano n | žvakani m / žvakane f / žvakana 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
- ižvákati
- prežvákati
- prožvákati
- sažvákati