balaviti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâlaʋiti/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧la‧vi‧ti

Verb

bȁlaviti impf (Cyrillic spelling ба̏лавити)

  1. (intransitive) to snivel
  2. (intransitive) to drool; to slobber

Conjugation

Conjugation of balaviti
infinitive balaviti
present verbal adverb bȁlavēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun bȁlavljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present balavim balaviš balavi balavimo balavite balave
future future I balavit ću1
balaviću
balavit ćeš1
balavićeš
balavit će1
balaviće
balavit ćemo1
balavićemo
balavit ćete1
balavićete
balavit ćē1
balaviće
future II bȕdēm balavio2 bȕdēš balavio2 bȕdē balavio2 bȕdēmo balavili2 bȕdēte balavili2 bȕdū balavili2
past perfect balavio sam2 balavio si2 balavio je2 balavili smo2 balavili ste2 balavili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam balavio2 bȉo si balavio2 bȉo je balavio2 bíli smo balavili2 bíli ste balavili2 bíli su balavili2
imperfect balavljah balavljaše balavljaše balavljasmo balavljaste balavljahu
conditional conditional I balavio bih2 balavio bi2 balavio bi2 balavili bismo2 balavili biste2 balavili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih balavio2 bȉo bi balavio2 bȉo bi balavio2 bíli bismo balavili2 bíli biste balavili2 bíli bi balavili2
imperative balavi balavimo balavite
active past participle balavio m / balavila f / balavilo n balavili m / balavile f / balavila n
passive past participle balavljen m / balavljena f / balavljeno n balavljeni m / balavljene f / balavljena 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

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