zevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• zijévati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zěvati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zěːʋati/
• Hyphenation: ze‧va‧ti

Verb

zévati impf (Cyrillic spelling зе́вати)

1. (intransitive) to yawn

Conjugation

Conjugation of zevati

Infinitive: zevati		Present verbal adverb: zévajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zévānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zevam	zevaš	zeva	zevamo	zevate	zevaju
Future	Future I	zevat ću1 zevaću	zevat ćeš1 zevaćeš	zevat će1 zevaće	zevat ćemo1 zevaćemo	zevat ćete1 zevaćete	zevat će1 zevaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zevao2	bȕdēš zevao2	bȕdē zevao2	bȕdēmo zevali2	bȕdēte zevali2	bȕdū zevali2
Past	Perfect	zevao sam2	zevao si2	zevao je2	zevali smo2	zevali ste2	zevali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zevao2	bȉo si zevao2	bȉo je zevao2	bíli smo zevali2	bíli ste zevali2	bíli su zevali2
	Imperfect	zevah	zevaše	zevaše	zevasmo	zevaste	zevahu
Conditional I		zevao bih2	zevao bi2	zevao bi2	zevali bismo2	zevali biste2	zevali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zevao2	bȉo bi zevao2	bȉo bi zevao2	bíli bismo zevali2	bíli biste zevali2	bíli bi zevali2
Imperative		—	zevaj	—	zevajmo	zevajte	—
Active past participle		zevao m / zevala f / zevalo n			zevali m / zevale f / zevala 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

• zévnuti pf