spajati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spǎːjati/
  • Hyphenation: spa‧ja‧ti

Verb

spájati impf (Cyrillic spelling спа́јати)

  1. (transitive) to connect, join
  2. (transitive) to combine, merge

Conjugation

Conjugation of spajati
infinitive spajati
present verbal adverb spájajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun spájānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present spajam spajaš spaja spajamo spajate spajaju
future future I spajat ću1
spajaću
spajat ćeš1
spajaćeš
spajat će1
spajaće
spajat ćemo1
spajaćemo
spajat ćete1
spajaćete
spajat ćē1
spajaće
future II bȕdēm spajao2 bȕdēš spajao2 bȕdē spajao2 bȕdēmo spajali2 bȕdēte spajali2 bȕdū spajali2
past perfect spajao sam2 spajao si2 spajao je2 spajali smo2 spajali ste2 spajali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam spajao2 bȉo si spajao2 bȉo je spajao2 bíli smo spajali2 bíli ste spajali2 bíli su spajali2
imperfect spajah spajaše spajaše spajasmo spajaste spajahu
conditional conditional I spajao bih2 spajao bi2 spajao bi2 spajali bismo2 spajali biste2 spajali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih spajao2 bȉo bi spajao2 bȉo bi spajao2 bíli bismo spajali2 bíli biste spajali2 bíli bi spajali2
imperative spajaj spajajmo spajajte
active past participle spajao m / spajala f / spajalo n spajali m / spajale f / spajala n
passive past participle spajan m / spajana f / spajano n spajani m / spajane f / spajana 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

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