usvajati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From usvòjiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /usʋǎːjati/
Hyphenation: u‧sva‧ja‧ti

Verb

usvájati impf (Cyrillic spelling усва́јати)

imperfective form of usvòjiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of *usvajati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		usvajati
present verbal adverb		usvájajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		usvájānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		usvajam	usvajaš	usvaja	usvajamo	usvajate	usvajaju
future	future I	usvajat ću¹ usvajaću	usvajat ćeš¹ usvajaćeš	usvajat će¹ usvajaće	usvajat ćemo¹ usvajaćemo	usvajat ćete¹ usvajaćete	usvajat ćē¹ usvajaće
future	future II	bȕdēm usvajao²	bȕdēš usvajao²	bȕdē usvajao²	bȕdēmo usvajali²	bȕdēte usvajali²	bȕdū usvajali²
past	perfect	usvajao sam²	usvajao si²	usvajao je²	usvajali smo²	usvajali ste²	usvajali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam usvajao²	bȉo si usvajao²	bȉo je usvajao²	bíli smo usvajali²	bíli ste usvajali²	bíli su usvajali²
	imperfect	usvajah	usvajaše	usvajaše	usvajasmo	usvajaste	usvajahu
conditional	conditional I	usvajao bih²	usvajao bi²	usvajao bi²	usvajali bismo²	usvajali biste²	usvajali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih usvajao²	bȉo bi usvajao²	bȉo bi usvajao²	bíli bismo usvajali²	bíli biste usvajali²	bíli bi usvajali²
imperative		—	usvajaj	—	usvajajmo	usvajajte	—
active past participle		usvajao m / usvajala f / usvajalo n			usvajali m / usvajale f / usvajala n
passive past participle		usvajan m / usvajana f / usvajano n			usvajani m / usvajane f / usvajana 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

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