zevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

zijévati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zěvati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zěːʋati/
Hyphenation: ze‧va‧ti

Verb

zévati impf (Cyrillic spelling зе́вати)

(intransitive) to yawn

Conjugation

Conjugation of zevati

Infinitive: zevati		Present verbal adverb: zévajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zévānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zevam	zevaš	zeva	zevamo	zevate	zevaju
Future	Future I	zevat ću¹ zevaću	zevat ćeš¹ zevaćeš	zevat će¹ zevaće	zevat ćemo¹ zevaćemo	zevat ćete¹ zevaćete	zevat će¹ zevaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm zevao²	bȕdēš zevao²	bȕdē zevao²	bȕdēmo zevali²	bȕdēte zevali²	bȕdū zevali²
Past	Perfect	zevao sam²	zevao si²	zevao je²	zevali smo²	zevali ste²	zevali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam zevao²	bȉo si zevao²	bȉo je zevao²	bíli smo zevali²	bíli ste zevali²	bíli su zevali²
	Imperfect	zevah	zevaše	zevaše	zevasmo	zevaste	zevahu
Conditional I		zevao bih²	zevao bi²	zevao bi²	zevali bismo²	zevali biste²	zevali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih zevao²	bȉo bi zevao²	bȉo bi zevao²	bíli bismo zevali²	bíli biste zevali²	bíli bi zevali²
Imperative		—	zevaj	—	zevajmo	zevajte	—
Active past participle		zevao m / zevala f / zevalo n			zevali m / zevale f / zevala 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.

Related terms

zévnuti pf