Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

See spati.

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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 edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • spavati” in Hrvatski jezični portal