smilovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smîloʋati/
  • Hyphenation: smi‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

smȉlovati pf (Cyrillic spelling сми̏ловати)

  1. (reflexive) to have/show mercy

Conjugation

Conjugation of smilovati
infinitive smilovati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb smȉlovāvši
verbal noun smȉlovānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present smilujem smiluješ smiluje smilujemo smilujete smiluju
future future I smilovat ću1
smilovaću
smilovat ćeš1
smilovaćeš
smilovat će1
smilovaće
smilovat ćemo1
smilovaćemo
smilovat ćete1
smilovaćete
smilovat ćē1
smilovaće
future II bȕdēm smilovao2 bȕdēš smilovao2 bȕdē smilovao2 bȕdēmo smilovali2 bȕdēte smilovali2 bȕdū smilovali2
past perfect smilovao sam2 smilovao si2 smilovao je2 smilovali smo2 smilovali ste2 smilovali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam smilovao2 bȉo si smilovao2 bȉo je smilovao2 bíli smo smilovali2 bíli ste smilovali2 bíli su smilovali2
aorist smilovah smilova smilova smilovasmo smilovaste smilovaše
conditional conditional I smilovao bih2 smilovao bi2 smilovao bi2 smilovali bismo2 smilovali biste2 smilovali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih smilovao2 bȉo bi smilovao2 bȉo bi smilovao2 bíli bismo smilovali2 bíli biste smilovali2 bíli bi smilovali2
imperative smiluj smilujmo smilujte
active past participle smilovao m / smilovala f / smilovalo n smilovali m / smilovale f / smilovala 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

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