spavati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

See spati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: spa‧va‧ti

Verb

spávati impf (Cyrillic spelling спа́вати)

  1. (intransitive) to sleep
    Ne spava joj se sada. ― She doesn't feel like sleeping. (literally, “It doesn't (feel like) sleeping to her.]”)
    On spava kao zaklan. ― He sleeps like a log.
  2. (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
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
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 ćē1
spavaće
future II bȕdēm spavao2 bȕdēš spavao2 bȕdē spavao2 bȕdēmo spavali2 bȕdēte spavali2 bȕdū spavali2
past perfect spavao sam2 spavao si2 spavao je2 spavali smo2 spavali ste2 spavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam spavao2 bȉo si spavao2 bȉo je spavao2 bíli smo spavali2 bíli ste spavali2 bíli su spavali2
imperfect spavah spavaše spavaše spavasmo spavaste spavahu
conditional conditional I spavao bih2 spavao bi2 spavao bi2 spavali bismo2 spavali biste2 spavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih spavao2 bȉo bi spavao2 bȉo bi spavao2 bíli bismo spavali2 bíli biste spavali2 bíli 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.
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

References

  • “spavati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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