uvaliti
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uvaliti.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]uváliti pf (Cyrillic spelling ува́лити)
- (reflexive) to sprawl (into armchair, bed etc.)
- (reflexive) to get stuck in, to get bogged down
- (reflexive) to intrude, impose oneself (into other people's company etc.)
- (transitive, sports) to score
- (transitive) to push, roll (something into something, or something so that it becomes completely covered with something)
- (transitive) to force, drive (somebody into an undesirable position or duty)
Conjugation
[edit]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
[edit]- uvaljívati impf
References
[edit]- “uvaliti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025