zahvaćati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• zàhvatati

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zǎxʋat͡ɕati/
• Hyphenation: za‧hva‧ća‧ti

Verb

zàhvaćati impf (Cyrillic spelling за̀хваћати)

1. (transitive) to seize, grab, grip, grasp
2. (transitive) to scoop
3. (transitive) to tackle, treat (problem)
4. (transitive) to engulf, extend, affect
5. (transitive) to overcome, seize

Conjugation

Conjugation of zahvaćati

infinitive		zahvaćati
present verbal adverb		zàhvaćajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		zàhvaćānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		zahvaćam	zahvaćaš	zahvaća	zahvaćamo	zahvaćate	zahvaćaju
future	future I	zahvaćat ću1 zahvaćaću	zahvaćat ćeš1 zahvaćaćeš	zahvaćat će1 zahvaćaće	zahvaćat ćemo1 zahvaćaćemo	zahvaćat ćete1 zahvaćaćete	zahvaćat ćē1 zahvaćaće
	future II	bȕdēm zahvaćao2	bȕdēš zahvaćao2	bȕdē zahvaćao2	bȕdēmo zahvaćali2	bȕdēte zahvaćali2	bȕdū zahvaćali2
past	perfect	zahvaćao sam2	zahvaćao si2	zahvaćao je2	zahvaćali smo2	zahvaćali ste2	zahvaćali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam zahvaćao2	bȉo si zahvaćao2	bȉo je zahvaćao2	bíli smo zahvaćali2	bíli ste zahvaćali2	bíli su zahvaćali2
	imperfect	zahvaćah	zahvaćaše	zahvaćaše	zahvaćasmo	zahvaćaste	zahvaćahu
conditional	conditional I	zahvaćao bih2	zahvaćao bi2	zahvaćao bi2	zahvaćali bismo2	zahvaćali biste2	zahvaćali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih zahvaćao2	bȉo bi zahvaćao2	bȉo bi zahvaćao2	bíli bismo zahvaćali2	bíli biste zahvaćali2	bíli bi zahvaćali2
imperative		—	zahvaćaj	—	zahvaćajmo	zahvaćajte	—
active past participle		zahvaćao m / zahvaćala f / zahvaćalo n			zahvaćali m / zahvaćale f / zahvaćala n
passive past participle		zahvaćan m / zahvaćana f / zahvaćano n			zahvaćani m / zahvaćane f / zahvaćana 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

• zàhvatiti pf

Further reading

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