spašavati

See also: spasavati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spaʃǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: spa‧ša‧va‧ti

Verb

spašávati impf (Cyrillic spelling спаша́вати)

  1. imperfective form of spásiti
  2. imperfective form of spásti

Conjugation

Conjugation of spašavati
infinitive spašavati
present verbal adverb spašávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun spašávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present spašavam spašavaš spašava spašavamo spašavate spašavaju
future future I spašavat ću1
spašavaću
spašavat ćeš1
spašavaćeš
spašavat će1
spašavaće
spašavat ćemo1
spašavaćemo
spašavat ćete1
spašavaćete
spašavat ćē1
spašavaće
future II bȕdēm spašavao2 bȕdēš spašavao2 bȕdē spašavao2 bȕdēmo spašavali2 bȕdēte spašavali2 bȕdū spašavali2
past perfect spašavao sam2 spašavao si2 spašavao je2 spašavali smo2 spašavali ste2 spašavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam spašavao2 bȉo si spašavao2 bȉo je spašavao2 bíli smo spašavali2 bíli ste spašavali2 bíli su spašavali2
imperfect spašavah spašavaše spašavaše spašavasmo spašavaste spašavahu
conditional conditional I spašavao bih2 spašavao bi2 spašavao bi2 spašavali bismo2 spašavali biste2 spašavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih spašavao2 bȉo bi spašavao2 bȉo bi spašavao2 bíli bismo spašavali2 bíli biste spašavali2 bíli bi spašavali2
imperative spašavaj spašavajmo spašavajte
active past participle spašavao m / spašavala f / spašavalo n spašavali m / spašavale f / spašavala n
passive past participle spašavan m / spašavana f / spašavano n spašavani m / spašavane f / spašavana 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

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