uvijati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uvijati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uʋǐːjati/
  • Hyphenation: u‧vi‧ja‧ti

Verb

uvíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling уви́јати)

  1. imperfective form of ùviti

Conjugation

Conjugation of uvijati
infinitive uvijati
present verbal adverb uvíjajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun uvíjānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present uvijam uvijaš uvija uvijamo uvijate uvijaju
future future I uvijat ću1
uvijaću
uvijat ćeš1
uvijaćeš
uvijat će1
uvijaće
uvijat ćemo1
uvijaćemo
uvijat ćete1
uvijaćete
uvijat ćē1
uvijaće
future II bȕdēm uvijao2 bȕdēš uvijao2 bȕdē uvijao2 bȕdēmo uvijali2 bȕdēte uvijali2 bȕdū uvijali2
past perfect uvijao sam2 uvijao si2 uvijao je2 uvijali smo2 uvijali ste2 uvijali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam uvijao2 bȉo si uvijao2 bȉo je uvijao2 bíli smo uvijali2 bíli ste uvijali2 bíli su uvijali2
imperfect uvijah uvijaše uvijaše uvijasmo uvijaste uvijahu
conditional conditional I uvijao bih2 uvijao bi2 uvijao bi2 uvijali bismo2 uvijali biste2 uvijali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih uvijao2 bȉo bi uvijao2 bȉo bi uvijao2 bíli bismo uvijali2 bíli biste uvijali2 bíli bi uvijali2
imperative uvijaj uvijajmo uvijajte
active past participle uvijao m / uvijala f / uvijalo n uvijali m / uvijale f / uvijala n
passive past participle uvijan m / uvijana f / uvijano n uvijani m / uvijane f / uvijana 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.

References

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