šljakati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of German Schlacke +‎ -ati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃʎâkati/
• Hyphenation: šlja‧ka‧ti

Verb

šljȁkati impf (Cyrillic spelling шља̏кати)

1. (colloquial) to work, to function
2. (colloquial) to peg away
3. (colloquial) to labor

Conjugation

Conjugation of šljakati

Infinitive: šljakati		Present verbal adverb: šljȁkajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: šljȁkānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		šljakam	šljakaš	šljaka	šljakamo	šljakate	šljakaju
Future	Future I	šljakat ću1 šljakaću	šljakat ćeš1 šljakaćeš	šljakat će1 šljakaće	šljakat ćemo1 šljakaćemo	šljakat ćete1 šljakaćete	šljakat će1 šljakaće
	Future II	bȕdēm šljakao2	bȕdēš šljakao2	bȕdē šljakao2	bȕdēmo šljakali2	bȕdēte šljakali2	bȕdū šljakali2
Past	Perfect	šljakao sam2	šljakao si2	šljakao je2	šljakali smo2	šljakali ste2	šljakali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam šljakao2	bȉo si šljakao2	bȉo je šljakao2	bíli smo šljakali2	bíli ste šljakali2	bíli su šljakali2
	Imperfect	šljakah	šljakaše	šljakaše	šljakasmo	šljakaste	šljakahu
Conditional I		šljakao bih2	šljakao bi2	šljakao bi2	šljakali bismo2	šljakali biste2	šljakali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih šljakao2	bȉo bi šljakao2	bȉo bi šljakao2	bíli bismo šljakali2	bíli biste šljakali2	bíli bi šljakali2
Imperative		—	šljakaj	—	šljakajmo	šljakajte	—
Active past participle		šljakao m / šljakala f / šljakalo n			šljakali m / šljakale f / šljakala 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.

Related terms

• ráditi

Further reading

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