djelovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

dȅlovati (Ekavian)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /djêloʋati/
Hyphenation: dje‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

djȅlovati impf (Cyrillic spelling дје̏ловати)

(intransitive) to work, function, operate
(intransitive) to act, react, take action (in response to something)
(intransitive) to seem, act as
(intransitive) to influence, affect, act on (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of *djelovati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		djelovati
present verbal adverb		djȅlujūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		djȅlovānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		djelujem	djeluješ	djeluje	djelujemo	djelujete	djeluju
future	future I	djelovat ću¹ djelovaću	djelovat ćeš¹ djelovaćeš	djelovat će¹ djelovaće	djelovat ćemo¹ djelovaćemo	djelovat ćete¹ djelovaćete	djelovat ćē¹ djelovaće
future	future II	bȕdēm djelovao²	bȕdēš djelovao²	bȕdē djelovao²	bȕdēmo djelovali²	bȕdēte djelovali²	bȕdū djelovali²
past	perfect	djelovao sam²	djelovao si²	djelovao je²	djelovali smo²	djelovali ste²	djelovali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam djelovao²	bȉo si djelovao²	bȉo je djelovao²	bíli smo djelovali²	bíli ste djelovali²	bíli su djelovali²
	imperfect	djelovah	djelovaše	djelovaše	djelovasmo	djelovaste	djelovahu
conditional	conditional I	djelovao bih²	djelovao bi²	djelovao bi²	djelovali bismo²	djelovali biste²	djelovali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih djelovao²	bȉo bi djelovao²	bȉo bi djelovao²	bíli bismo djelovali²	bíli biste djelovali²	bíli bi djelovali²
imperative		—	djeluj	—	djelujmo	djelujte	—
active past participle		djelovao m / djelovala f / djelovalo n			djelovali m / djelovale f / djelovala 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.

Derived terms

sùdjelovati