cvasti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sʋâsti/
Hyphenation: cva‧sti

Verb

cvȁsti impf (Cyrillic spelling цва̏сти)

(intransitive, Croatia) to bloom, blossom, thrive
Ove godine visibabe cvatu ranije nego obično. ― This year the snowdrops are blooming earlier than usual.
(intransitive, figuratively, Croatia) to flourish, thrive, bloom
Zapošljavaju još ljudi jer posao cvate. ― They are hiring more people because the business is thriving.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cvasti

Infinitive: cvasti		Present verbal adverb: cvàtūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cvàtnja
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cvatem	cvateš	cvate	cvatemo	cvatete	cvatu
Future	Future I	cvast ću¹ cvašću	cvast ćeš¹ cvašćeš	cvast će¹ cvašće	cvast ćemo¹ cvašćemo	cvast ćete¹ cvašćete	cvast će¹ cvašće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm cvao²	bȕdēš cvao²	bȕdē cvao²	bȕdēmo cvali²	bȕdēte cvali²	bȕdū cvali²
Past	Perfect	cvao sam²	cvao si²	cvao je²	cvali smo²	cvali ste²	cvali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam cvao²	bȉo si cvao²	bȉo je cvao²	bíli smo cvali²	bíli ste cvali²	bíli su cvali²
	Imperfect	cvatijah	cvatijaše	cvatijaše	cvatijasmo	cvatijaste	cvatijahu
Conditional I		cvao bih²	cvao bi²	cvao bi²	cvali bismo²	cvali biste²	cvali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih cvao²	bȉo bi cvao²	bȉo bi cvao²	bíli bismo cvali²	bíli biste cvali²	bíli bi cvali²
Imperative		—	cvati	—	cvatimo	cvatite	—
Active past participle		cvao m / cvala f / cvalo n			cvali m / cvale f / cvala 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.

Synonyms

cvjètati / cvètati

Related terms

cvijȇt / cvȇt