sevdisati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

sevdi +‎ -isati Akin to sèvdāh, sevdàlija, sevdàluk, sèvdi, sevdàlīnka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sěʋdisati/
  • Hyphenation: sev‧di‧sa‧ti

Verb

sèvdisati impf (Cyrillic spelling сѐвдисати)

  1. (transitive) to love
  2. (transitive) to kiss
  3. (transitive) to fondle, caress
  4. (transitive) to make love to

Conjugation

Conjugation of sevdisati
infinitive sevdisati
present verbal adverb sèvdišūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun sèvdisānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present sevdišem sevdišeš sevdiše sevdišemo sevdišete sevdišu
future future I sevdisat ću1
sevdisaću
sevdisat ćeš1
sevdisaćeš
sevdisat će1
sevdisaće
sevdisat ćemo1
sevdisaćemo
sevdisat ćete1
sevdisaćete
sevdisat ćē1
sevdisaće
future II bȕdēm sevdisao2 bȕdēš sevdisao2 bȕdē sevdisao2 bȕdēmo sevdisali2 bȕdēte sevdisali2 bȕdū sevdisali2
past perfect sevdisao sam2 sevdisao si2 sevdisao je2 sevdisali smo2 sevdisali ste2 sevdisali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam sevdisao2 bȉo si sevdisao2 bȉo je sevdisao2 bíli smo sevdisali2 bíli ste sevdisali2 bíli su sevdisali2
imperfect sevdisah sevdisaše sevdisaše sevdisasmo sevdisaste sevdisahu
conditional conditional I sevdisao bih2 sevdisao bi2 sevdisao bi2 sevdisali bismo2 sevdisali biste2 sevdisali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih sevdisao2 bȉo bi sevdisao2 bȉo bi sevdisao2 bíli bismo sevdisali2 bíli biste sevdisali2 bíli bi sevdisali2
imperative sevdiši sevdišimo sevdišite
active past participle sevdisao m / sevdisalo f / sevdisalo n sevdisali m / sevdisale f / sevdisala 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.

References

  • sevdisati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 562