sputavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sputǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: spu‧ta‧va‧ti

Verb

sputávati impf (Cyrillic spelling спута́вати)

  1. (transitive) to bind, fetter, chain, tie
    Synonym: vezivati pf

Conjugation

Conjugation of sputavati
infinitive sputavati
present verbal adverb sputávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun sputávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present sputavam sputavaš sputava sputavamo sputavate sputavaju
future future I sputavat ću1
sputavaću
sputavat ćeš1
sputavaćeš
sputavat će1
sputavaće
sputavat ćemo1
sputavaćemo
sputavat ćete1
sputavaćete
sputavat ćē1
sputavaće
future II bȕdēm sputavao2 bȕdēš sputavao2 bȕdē sputavao2 bȕdēmo sputavali2 bȕdēte sputavali2 bȕdū sputavali2
past perfect sputavao sam2 sputavao si2 sputavao je2 sputavali smo2 sputavali ste2 sputavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam sputavao2 bȉo si sputavao2 bȉo je sputavao2 bíli smo sputavali2 bíli ste sputavali2 bíli su sputavali2
imperfect sputavah sputavaše sputavaše sputavasmo sputavaste sputavahu
conditional conditional I sputavao bih2 sputavao bi2 sputavao bi2 sputavali bismo2 sputavali biste2 sputavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih sputavao2 bȉo bi sputavao2 bȉo bi sputavao2 bíli bismo sputavali2 bíli biste sputavali2 bíli bi sputavali2
imperative sputavaj sputavajmo sputavajte
active past participle sputavao m / sputavala f / sputavalo n sputavali m / sputavale f / sputavala n
passive past participle sputavan m / sputavana f / sputavano n sputavani m / sputavane f / sputavana 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

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