usisavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /usisǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: u‧si‧sa‧va‧ti

Verb

usisávati impf (Cyrillic spelling усиса́вати)

  1. (transitive) to suck in, absorb
  2. (ambitransitive) to vacuum

Conjugation

Conjugation of usisavati
infinitive usisavati
present verbal adverb usisávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun usisávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present usisavam usisavaš usisava usisavamo usisavate usisavaju
future future I usisavat ću1
usisavaću
usisavat ćeš1
usisavaćeš
usisavat će1
usisavaće
usisavat ćemo1
usisavaćemo
usisavat ćete1
usisavaćete
usisavat ćē1
usisavaće
future II bȕdēm usisavao2 bȕdēš usisavao2 bȕdē usisavao2 bȕdēmo usisavali2 bȕdēte usisavali2 bȕdū usisavali2
past perfect usisavao sam2 usisavao si2 usisavao je2 usisavali smo2 usisavali ste2 usisavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam usisavao2 bȉo si usisavao2 bȉo je usisavao2 bíli smo usisavali2 bíli ste usisavali2 bíli su usisavali2
imperfect usisavah usisavaše usisavaše usisavasmo usisavaste usisavahu
conditional conditional I usisavao bih2 usisavao bi2 usisavao bi2 usisavali bismo2 usisavali biste2 usisavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih usisavao2 bȉo bi usisavao2 bȉo bi usisavao2 bíli bismo usisavali2 bíli biste usisavali2 bíli bi usisavali2
imperative usisavaj usisavajmo usisavajte
active past participle usisavao m / usisavala f / usisavalo n usisavali m / usisavale f / usisavala n
passive past participle usisavan m / usisavana f / usisavano n usisavani m / usisavane f / usisavana 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

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