zevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zěvati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zěːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: ze‧va‧ti

Verb

zévati impf (Cyrillic spelling зе́вати)

  1. (intransitive) to yawn

Conjugation

Conjugation of zevati
infinitive zevati
present verbal adverb zévajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun zévānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zevam zevaš zeva zevamo zevate zevaju
future future I zevat ću1
zevaću
zevat ćeš1
zevaćeš
zevat će1
zevaće
zevat ćemo1
zevaćemo
zevat ćete1
zevaćete
zevat ćē1
zevaće
future II bȕdēm zevao2 bȕdēš zevao2 bȕdē zevao2 bȕdēmo zevali2 bȕdēte zevali2 bȕdū zevali2
past perfect zevao sam2 zevao si2 zevao je2 zevali smo2 zevali ste2 zevali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zevao2 bȉo si zevao2 bȉo je zevao2 bíli smo zevali2 bíli ste zevali2 bíli su zevali2
imperfect zevah zevaše zevaše zevasmo zevaste zevahu
conditional conditional I zevao bih2 zevao bi2 zevao bi2 zevali bismo2 zevali biste2 zevali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zevao2 bȉo bi zevao2 bȉo bi zevao2 bíli bismo zevali2 bíli biste zevali2 bíli bi zevali2
imperative zevaj zevajmo zevajte
active past participle zevao m / zevala f / zevalo n zevali m / zevale f / zevala 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.