kvariti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kvariti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʋǎːriti/
  • Hyphenation: kva‧ri‧ti

Verb

kváriti impf (Cyrillic spelling ква́рити)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to damage, ruin, spoil
  2. (transitive, reflexive) to pervert, corrupt

Conjugation

Conjugation of kvariti
infinitive kvariti
present verbal adverb kvárēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun kvárēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present kvarim kvariš kvari kvarimo kvarite kvare
future future I kvarit ću1
kvariću
kvarit ćeš1
kvarićeš
kvarit će1
kvariće
kvarit ćemo1
kvarićemo
kvarit ćete1
kvarićete
kvarit ćē1
kvariće
future II bȕdēm kvario2 bȕdēš kvario2 bȕdē kvario2 bȕdēmo kvarili2 bȕdēte kvarili2 bȕdū kvarili2
past perfect kvario sam2 kvario si2 kvario je2 kvarili smo2 kvarili ste2 kvarili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam kvario2 bȉo si kvario2 bȉo je kvario2 bíli smo kvarili2 bíli ste kvarili2 bíli su kvarili2
imperfect kvarah kvaraše kvaraše kvarasmo kvaraste kvarahu
conditional conditional I kvario bih2 kvario bi2 kvario bi2 kvarili bismo2 kvarili biste2 kvarili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih kvario2 bȉo bi kvario2 bȉo bi kvario2 bíli bismo kvarili2 bíli biste kvarili2 bíli bi kvarili2
imperative kvari kvarimo kvarite
active past participle kvario m / kvarila f / kvarilo n kvarili m / kvarile f / kvarila n
passive past participle kvaren m / kvarena f / kvareno n kvareni m / kvarene f / kvarena 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

Further reading

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