usporavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /usporǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: u‧spo‧ra‧va‧ti

Verb

usporávati impf (Cyrillic spelling успора́вати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to slow down

Conjugation

Conjugation of usporavati

Infinitive: usporavati		Present verbal adverb: usporávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		usporavam	usporavaš	usporava	usporavamo	usporavate	usporavaju
Future	Future I	usporavat ću1 usporavaću	usporavat ćeš1 usporavaćeš	usporavat će1 usporavaće	usporavat ćemo1 usporavaćemo	usporavat ćete1 usporavaćete	usporavat će1 usporavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm usporavao2	bȕdēš usporavao2	bȕdē usporavao2	bȕdēmo usporavali2	bȕdēte usporavali2	bȕdū usporavali2
Past	Perfect	usporavao sam2	usporavao si2	usporavao je2	usporavali smo2	usporavali ste2	usporavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam usporavao2	bȉo si usporavao2	bȉo je usporavao2	bíli smo usporavali2	bíli ste usporavali2	bíli su usporavali2
	Imperfect	usporavah	usporavaše	usporavaše	usporavasmo	usporavaste	usporavahu
Conditional I		usporavao bih2	usporavao bi2	usporavao bi2	usporavali bismo2	usporavali biste2	usporavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih usporavao2	bȉo bi usporavao2	bȉo bi usporavao2	bíli bismo usporavali2	bíli biste usporavali2	bíli bi usporavali2
Imperative		—	usporavaj	—	usporavajmo	usporavajte	—
Active past participle		usporavao m / usporavala f / usporavalo n			usporavali m / usporavale f / usporavala n
Passive past participle		usporavan m / usporavana f / usporavano n			usporavani m / usporavane f / usporavana 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

• uspòriti pf