zvocati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From zvȗk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zʋôt͡sati/
• Hyphenation: zvo‧ca‧ti

Verb

zvȍcati impf (Cyrillic spelling зво̏цати)

1. (intransitive, with dative, colloquial, derogatory) to complain
2. (intransitive, with dative, colloquial, derogatory) to nag, bother, chivvy

Conjugation

Conjugation of zvocati

infinitive		zvocati
present verbal adverb		zvocajući
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		zvocānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		zvocam	zvocaš	zvoca	zvocamo	zvocate	zvocaju
future	future I	zvocat ću1 zvocaću	zvocat ćeš1 zvocaćeš	zvocat će1 zvocaće	zvocat ćemo1 zvocaćemo	zvocat ćete1 zvocaćete	zvocat ćē1 zvocaće
	future II	bȕdēm zvocao2	bȕdēš zvocao2	bȕdē zvocao2	bȕdēmo zvocali2	bȕdēte zvocali2	bȕdū zvocali2
past	perfect	zvocao sam2	zvocao si2	zvocao je2	zvocali smo2	zvocali ste2	zvocali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam zvocao2	bȉo si zvocao2	bȉo je zvocao2	bíli smo zvocali2	bíli ste zvocali2	bíli su zvocali2
	imperfect	zvocah	zvocaše	zvocaše	zvocasmo	zvocaste	zvocahu
conditional	conditional I	zvocao bih2	zvocao bi2	zvocao bi2	zvocali bismo2	zvocali biste2	zvocali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih zvocao2	bȉo bi zvocao2	bȉo bi zvocao2	bíli bismo zvocali2	bíli biste zvocali2	bíli bi zvocali2
imperative		—	zvocaj	—	zvocajmo	zvocajte	—
active past participle		zvocao m / zvocala f / zvocalo n			zvocali m / zvocale f / zvocala 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.

Synonyms

• (to complain): prigovárati
• (to bore): dosađívati

References

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