svladavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʋladǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: svla‧da‧va‧ti

Verb

svladávati impf (Cyrillic spelling свлада́вати)

  1. (transitive) to defeat (opponent, enemy)
  2. (transitive) to overcome, surmount (difficulty, obstacle, fear etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of svladavati
infinitive svladavati
present verbal adverb svladávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun svladávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present svladavam svladavaš svladava svladavamo svladavate svladavaju
future future I svladavat ću1
svladavaću
svladavat ćeš1
svladavaćeš
svladavat će1
svladavaće
svladavat ćemo1
svladavaćemo
svladavat ćete1
svladavaćete
svladavat ćē1
svladavaće
future II bȕdēm svladavao2 bȕdēš svladavao2 bȕdē svladavao2 bȕdēmo svladavali2 bȕdēte svladavali2 bȕdū svladavali2
past perfect svladavao sam2 svladavao si2 svladavao je2 svladavali smo2 svladavali ste2 svladavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam svladavao2 bȉo si svladavao2 bȉo je svladavao2 bíli smo svladavali2 bíli ste svladavali2 bíli su svladavali2
imperfect svladavah svladavaše svladavaše svladavasmo svladavaste svladavahu
conditional conditional I svladavao bih2 svladavao bi2 svladavao bi2 svladavali bismo2 svladavali biste2 svladavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih svladavao2 bȉo bi svladavao2 bȉo bi svladavao2 bíli bismo svladavali2 bíli biste svladavali2 bíli bi svladavali2
imperative svladavaj svladavajmo svladavajte
active past participle svladavao m / svladavala f / svladavalo n svladavali m / svladavale f / svladavala n
passive past participle svladavan m / svladavana f / svladavano n svladavani m / svladavane f / svladavana 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

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