žalovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒâloʋati/
  • Hyphenation: ža‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

žȁlovati impf (Cyrillic spelling жа̏ловати)

  1. (intransitive) to mourn

Conjugation

Conjugation of žalovati
infinitive žalovati
present verbal adverb žȁlujūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun žȁlovānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present žalujem žaluješ žaluje žalujemo žalujete žaluju
future future I žalovat ću1
žalovaću
žalovat ćeš1
žalovaćeš
žalovat će1
žalovaće
žalovat ćemo1
žalovaćemo
žalovat ćete1
žalovaćete
žalovat ćē1
žalovaće
future II bȕdēm žalovao2 bȕdēš žalovao2 bȕdē žalovao2 bȕdēmo žalovali2 bȕdēte žalovali2 bȕdū žalovali2
past perfect žalovao sam2 žalovao si2 žalovao je2 žalovali smo2 žalovali ste2 žalovali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam žalovao2 bȉo si žalovao2 bȉo je žalovao2 bíli smo žalovali2 bíli ste žalovali2 bíli su žalovali2
imperfect žalovah žalovaše žalovaše žalovasmo žalovaste žalovahu
conditional conditional I žalovao bih2 žalovao bi2 žalovao bi2 žalovali bismo2 žalovali biste2 žalovali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih žalovao2 bȉo bi žalovao2 bȉo bi žalovao2 bíli bismo žalovali2 bíli biste žalovali2 bíli bi žalovali2
imperative žaluj žalujmo žalujte
active past participle žalovao m / žalovala f / žalovalo n žalovali m / žalovale f / žalovala 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.

Further reading

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