shvaćati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

shvȁtati (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sxʋât͡ɕati/
Hyphenation: shva‧ća‧ti

Verb

shvȁćati impf (Cyrillic spelling схва̏ћати)

(Croatia, transitive, intransitive) imperfective form of shvȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of shvaćati

Infinitive: shvaćati		Present verbal adverb: shvȁćajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: shvȁćānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		shvaćam	shvaćaš	shvaća	shvaćamo	shvaćate	shvaćaju
Future	Future I	shvaćat ću¹ shvaćaću	shvaćat ćeš¹ shvaćaćeš	shvaćat će¹ shvaćaće	shvaćat ćemo¹ shvaćaćemo	shvaćat ćete¹ shvaćaćete	shvaćat će¹ shvaćaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm shvaćao²	bȕdēš shvaćao²	bȕdē shvaćao²	bȕdēmo shvaćali²	bȕdēte shvaćali²	bȕdū shvaćali²
Past	Perfect	shvaćao sam²	shvaćao si²	shvaćao je²	shvaćali smo²	shvaćali ste²	shvaćali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam shvaćao²	bȉo si shvaćao²	bȉo je shvaćao²	bíli smo shvaćali²	bíli ste shvaćali²	bíli su shvaćali²
	Imperfect	shvaćah	shvaćaše	shvaćaše	shvaćasmo	shvaćaste	shvaćahu
Conditional I		shvaćao bih²	shvaćao bi²	shvaćao bi²	shvaćali bismo²	shvaćali biste²	shvaćali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih shvaćao²	bȉo bi shvaćao²	bȉo bi shvaćao²	bíli bismo shvaćali²	bíli biste shvaćali²	bíli bi shvaćali²
Imperative		—	shvaćaj	—	shvaćajmo	shvaćajte	—
Active past participle		shvaćao m / shvaćala f / shvaćalo n			shvaćali m / shvaćale f / shvaćala n
Passive past participle		shvaćan m / shvaćana f / shvaćano n			shvaćani m / shvaćane f / shvaćana 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.

References

“shvaćati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024