shvaćati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• shvȁtati (Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sxʋât͡ɕati/
• Hyphenation: shva‧ća‧ti

Verb

shvȁćati impf (Cyrillic spelling схва̏ћати)

1. (Croatia, ambitransitive) imperfective form of shvȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of shvaćati

infinitive		shvaćati
present verbal adverb		shvȁćajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		shvȁćānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		shvaćam	shvaćaš	shvaća	shvaćamo	shvaćate	shvaćaju
future	future I	shvaćat ću1 shvaćaću	shvaćat ćeš1 shvaćaćeš	shvaćat će1 shvaćaće	shvaćat ćemo1 shvaćaćemo	shvaćat ćete1 shvaćaćete	shvaćat ćē1 shvaćaće
	future II	bȕdēm shvaćao2	bȕdēš shvaćao2	bȕdē shvaćao2	bȕdēmo shvaćali2	bȕdēte shvaćali2	bȕdū shvaćali2
past	perfect	shvaćao sam2	shvaćao si2	shvaćao je2	shvaćali smo2	shvaćali ste2	shvaćali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam shvaćao2	bȉo si shvaćao2	bȉo je shvaćao2	bíli smo shvaćali2	bíli ste shvaćali2	bíli su shvaćali2
	imperfect	shvaćah	shvaćaše	shvaćaše	shvaćasmo	shvaćaste	shvaćahu
conditional	conditional I	shvaćao bih2	shvaćao bi2	shvaćao bi2	shvaćali bismo2	shvaćali biste2	shvaćali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih shvaćao2	bȉo bi shvaćao2	bȉo bi shvaćao2	bíli bismo shvaćali2	bíli biste shvaćali2	bíli bi shvaćali2
imperative		—	shvaćaj	—	shvaćajmo	shvaćajte	—
active past participle		shvaćao m / shvaćala f / shvaćalo n			shvaćali m / shvaćale f / shvaćala n
passive past participle		shvaćan m / shvaćana f / shvaćano n			shvaćani m / shvaćane f / shvaćana 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.

References

• “shvaćati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025