zavladavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zaʋladǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧vla‧da‧va‧ti

Verb

zavladávati impf (Cyrillic spelling завлада́вати)

  1. (intransitive) to take over or establish the rule or reign of (+ instrumental)
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) to become prevalent or dominant; to take over, dominate (silence, fear, weather, fashion etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zavladavati
infinitive zavladavati
present verbal adverb zavladávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun zavladávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zavladavam zavladavaš zavladava zavladavamo zavladavate zavladavaju
future future I zavladavat ću1
zavladavaću
zavladavat ćeš1
zavladavaćeš
zavladavat će1
zavladavaće
zavladavat ćemo1
zavladavaćemo
zavladavat ćete1
zavladavaćete
zavladavat ćē1
zavladavaće
future II bȕdēm zavladavao2 bȕdēš zavladavao2 bȕdē zavladavao2 bȕdēmo zavladavali2 bȕdēte zavladavali2 bȕdū zavladavali2
past perfect zavladavao sam2 zavladavao si2 zavladavao je2 zavladavali smo2 zavladavali ste2 zavladavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zavladavao2 bȉo si zavladavao2 bȉo je zavladavao2 bíli smo zavladavali2 bíli ste zavladavali2 bíli su zavladavali2
imperfect zavladavah zavladavaše zavladavaše zavladavasmo zavladavaste zavladavahu
conditional conditional I zavladavao bih2 zavladavao bi2 zavladavao bi2 zavladavali bismo2 zavladavali biste2 zavladavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zavladavao2 bȉo bi zavladavao2 bȉo bi zavladavao2 bíli bismo zavladavali2 bíli biste zavladavali2 bíli bi zavladavali2
imperative zavladavaj zavladavajmo zavladavajte
active past participle zavladavao m / zavladavala f / zavladavalo n zavladavali m / zavladavale f / zavladavala n
passive past participle zavladavan m / zavladavana f / zavladavano n zavladavani m / zavladavane f / zavladavana 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

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