daviti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *daviti (Russian дави́ть (davítʹ), Polish dławić).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /dǎːʋiti/
Hyphenation: da‧vi‧ti

Verb edit

dáviti impf (Cyrillic spelling да́вити)

(transitive, reflexive) to choke, strangle
(transitive, reflexive) to drown
(transitive, informal) to annoy, to bother, to pester

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of daviti

Infinitive: daviti		Present verbal adverb: dávēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dávljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		davim	daviš	davi	davimo	davite	dave
Future	Future I	davit ću¹ daviću	davit ćeš¹ davićeš	davit će¹ daviće	davit ćemo¹ davićemo	davit ćete¹ davićete	davit će¹ daviće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm davio²	bȕdēš davio²	bȕdē davio²	bȕdēmo davili²	bȕdēte davili²	bȕdū davili²
Past	Perfect	davio sam²	davio si²	davio je²	davili smo²	davili ste²	davili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam davio²	bȉo si davio²	bȉo je davio²	bíli smo davili²	bíli ste davili²	bíli su davili²
	Imperfect	davljah	davljaše	davljaše	davljasmo	davljaste	davljahu
Conditional I		davio bih²	davio bi²	davio bi²	davili bismo²	davili biste²	davili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih davio²	bȉo bi davio²	bȉo bi davio²	bíli bismo davili²	bíli biste davili²	bíli bi davili²
Imperative		—	davi	—	davimo	davite	—
Active past participle		davio m / davila f / davilo n			davili m / davile f / davila n
Passive past participle		davljen m / davljena f / davljeno n			davljeni m / davljene f / davljena 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 edit

“daviti” in Hrvatski jezični portal