zimovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From zíma +‎ -ovati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zimǒʋati/
  • Hyphenation: zi‧mo‧va‧ti

Verb

zimòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling зимо̀вати)

  1. (intransitive) to spend winter vacation/holidays (as, in a resort)
  2. (intransitive) to spend the winter somewhere

Conjugation

Conjugation of zimovati
infinitive zimovati
present verbal adverb zìmujūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun zimòvānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present zimujem zimuješ zimuje zimujemo zimujete zimuju
future future I zimovat ću1
zimovaću
zimovat ćeš1
zimovaćeš
zimovat će1
zimovaće
zimovat ćemo1
zimovaćemo
zimovat ćete1
zimovaćete
zimovat ćē1
zimovaće
future II bȕdēm zimovao2 bȕdēš zimovao2 bȕdē zimovao2 bȕdēmo zimovali2 bȕdēte zimovali2 bȕdū zimovali2
past perfect zimovao sam2 zimovao si2 zimovao je2 zimovali smo2 zimovali ste2 zimovali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam zimovao2 bȉo si zimovao2 bȉo je zimovao2 bíli smo zimovali2 bíli ste zimovali2 bíli su zimovali2
imperfect zimovah zimovaše zimovaše zimovasmo zimovaste zimovahu
conditional conditional I zimovao bih2 zimovao bi2 zimovao bi2 zimovali bismo2 zimovali biste2 zimovali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih zimovao2 bȉo bi zimovao2 bȉo bi zimovao2 bíli bismo zimovali2 bíli biste zimovali2 bíli bi zimovali2
imperative zimuj zimujmo zimujte
active past participle zimovao m / zimovala f / zimovalo n zimovali m / zimovale f / zimovala 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

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