svetkovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʋetkǒʋati/
Hyphenation: svet‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

svetkòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling светко̀вати)

(intransitive) to celebrate, solemnize

Conjugation

Conjugation of svetkovati

Infinitive: svetkovati		Present verbal adverb: svètkujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: svetkòvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		svetkujem	svetkuješ	svetkuje	svetkujemo	svetkujete	svetkuju
Future	Future I	svetkovat ću¹ svetkovaću	svetkovat ćeš¹ svetkovaćeš	svetkovat će¹ svetkovaće	svetkovat ćemo¹ svetkovaćemo	svetkovat ćete¹ svetkovaćete	svetkovat će¹ svetkovaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm svetkovao²	bȕdēš svetkovao²	bȕdē svetkovao²	bȕdēmo svetkovali²	bȕdēte svetkovali²	bȕdū svetkovali²
Past	Perfect	svetkovao sam²	svetkovao si²	svetkovao je²	svetkovali smo²	svetkovali ste²	svetkovali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam svetkovao²	bȉo si svetkovao²	bȉo je svetkovao²	bíli smo svetkovali²	bíli ste svetkovali²	bíli su svetkovali²
	Imperfect	svetkovah	svetkovaše	svetkovaše	svetkovasmo	svetkovaste	svetkovahu
Conditional I		svetkovao bih²	svetkovao bi²	svetkovao bi²	svetkovali bismo²	svetkovali biste²	svetkovali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih svetkovao²	bȉo bi svetkovao²	bȉo bi svetkovao²	bíli bismo svetkovali²	bíli biste svetkovali²	bíli bi svetkovali²
Imperative		—	svetkuj	—	svetkujmo	svetkujte	—
Active past participle		svetkovao m / svetkovala f / svetkovalo n			svetkovali m / svetkovale f / svetkovala 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.