svirati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svirati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʋǐːrati/
Hyphenation: svi‧ra‧ti

Verb

svírati impf (Cyrillic spelling сви́рати)

(ambitransitive, music) to play (an instrument)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *svirati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		svirati
present verbal adverb		svírajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		svírānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		sviram	sviraš	svira	sviramo	svirate	sviraju
future	future I	svirat ću¹ sviraću	svirat ćeš¹ sviraćeš	svirat će¹ sviraće	svirat ćemo¹ sviraćemo	svirat ćete¹ sviraćete	svirat ćē¹ sviraće
future	future II	bȕdēm svirao²	bȕdēš svirao²	bȕdē svirao²	bȕdēmo svirali²	bȕdēte svirali²	bȕdū svirali²
past	perfect	svirao sam²	svirao si²	svirao je²	svirali smo²	svirali ste²	svirali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam svirao²	bȉo si svirao²	bȉo je svirao²	bíli smo svirali²	bíli ste svirali²	bíli su svirali²
	imperfect	svirah	sviraše	sviraše	svirasmo	sviraste	svirahu
conditional	conditional I	svirao bih²	svirao bi²	svirao bi²	svirali bismo²	svirali biste²	svirali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih svirao²	bȉo bi svirao²	bȉo bi svirao²	bíli bismo svirali²	bíli biste svirali²	bíli bi svirali²
imperative		—	sviraj	—	svirajmo	svirajte	—
active past participle		svirao m / svirala f / sviralo n			svirali m / svirale f / svirala 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.