zvati

See also: zváti and žváti

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zъvati.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /zʋâti/
Hyphenation: zva‧ti

Verb edit

zvȁti impf (Cyrillic spelling зва̏ти)

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to call, to be called
Kako se zoveš? Zovem se Petar. ― What is your name? My name is Peter. (literally, “What do you call yourself? I call myself Peter.”)
(transitive, intransitive) to summon
(transitive, intransitive) to call, invite (as a guest, or on the phone)
zvati na telefon ― to call on the phone
(transitive, intransitive, colloquial) to decide, call
Meni je svejedno, ti zovi gdje idemo na kraju.
It's all the same to me, you decide where we are going in the end.

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of zvati

Infinitive: zvati		Present verbal adverb: zòvūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zvȃnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zovem	zoveš	zove	zovemo	zovete	zovu
Future	Future I	zvat ću¹ zvaću	zvat ćeš¹ zvaćeš	zvat će¹ zvaće	zvat ćemo¹ zvaćemo	zvat ćete¹ zvaćete	zvat će¹ zvaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm zvao²	bȕdēš zvao²	bȕdē zvao²	bȕdēmo zvali²	bȕdēte zvali²	bȕdū zvali²
Past	Perfect	zvao sam²	zvao si²	zvao je²	zvali smo²	zvali ste²	zvali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam zvao²	bȉo si zvao²	bȉo je zvao²	bíli smo zvali²	bíli ste zvali²	bíli su zvali²
	Imperfect	zvah	zvaše	zvaše	zvasmo	zvaste	zvahu
Conditional I		zvao bih²	zvao bi²	zvao bi²	zvali bismo²	zvali biste²	zvali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih zvao²	bȉo bi zvao²	bȉo bi zvao²	bíli bismo zvali²	bíli biste zvali²	bíli bi zvali²
Imperative		—	zovi	—	zovimo	zovite	—
Active past participle		zvao m / zvala f / zvalo n			zvali m / zvale f / zvala n
Passive past participle		zvan m / zvana f / zvano n			zvani m / zvane f / zvana 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.

Derived terms edit

Slovene edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *zъvati.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /zʋàːti/

Verb edit

zváti impf

to call
to call, to name

Inflection edit


infinitive	zváti
1st singular	zóvem
infinitive	zváti		zvȁt
supine	zvȃt
verbal noun	zvānje
	participle		converb
present	—		—
past	zván		—
l-participle	masculine	feminine		neuter
singular	zvȃł	zvála		zvȃlo
dual	zvȃla	zvȃli		zvȃli
plural	zvȃli	zvȃle		zvȃla
	present		imperative
1st singular	zóvem		—
2nd singular	zóveš		zóvi
3rd singular	zóve		—
1st dual	zóveva		zovȋva
2nd dual	zóveta		zovȋta
3rd dual	zóveta		—
1st plural	zóvemo		zovȋmo
2nd plural	zóvete		zovȋte
3rd plural	zóvejo		—