delovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

djȅlovati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From dȅlati +‎ -ovati. Compare with Pannonian Rusyn дїловац (djilovac).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dêloʋati/
Hyphenation: de‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

dȅlovati impf (Cyrillic spelling де̏ловати)

(intransitive) to work, perform, function, operate
(intransitive) to seem, act as if
(intransitive) to influence, affect, act on (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of *delovati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		delovati
present verbal adverb		dȅlujūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		dȅlovānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		delujem	deluješ	deluje	delujemo	delujete	deluju
future	future I	delovat ću¹ delovaću	delovat ćeš¹ delovaćeš	delovat će¹ delovaće	delovat ćemo¹ delovaćemo	delovat ćete¹ delovaćete	delovat ćē¹ delovaće
future	future II	bȕdēm delovao²	bȕdēš delovao²	bȕdē delovao²	bȕdēmo delovali²	bȕdēte delovali²	bȕdū delovali²
past	perfect	delovao sam²	delovao si²	delovao je²	delovali smo²	delovali ste²	delovali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam delovao²	bȉo si delovao²	bȉo je delovao²	bíli smo delovali²	bíli ste delovali²	bíli su delovali²
	imperfect	delovah	delovaše	delovaše	delovasmo	delovaste	delovahu
conditional	conditional I	delovao bih²	delovao bi²	delovao bi²	delovali bismo²	delovali biste²	delovali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih delovao²	bȉo bi delovao²	bȉo bi delovao²	bíli bismo delovali²	bíli biste delovali²	bíli bi delovali²
imperative		—	deluj	—	delujmo	delujte	—
active past participle		delovao m / delovala f / delovalo n			delovali m / delovale f / delovala 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

sùdelovati