žalovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒâloʋati/
• Hyphenation: ža‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

žȁlovati impf (Cyrillic spelling жа̏ловати)

1. (intransitive) to mourn

Conjugation

Conjugation of žalovati

Infinitive: žalovati		Present verbal adverb: žȁlujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: žȁlovānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		žalujem	žaluješ	žaluje	žalujemo	žalujete	žaluju
Future	Future I	žalovat ću1 žalovaću	žalovat ćeš1 žalovaćeš	žalovat će1 žalovaće	žalovat ćemo1 žalovaćemo	žalovat ćete1 žalovaćete	žalovat će1 žalovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm žalovao2	bȕdēš žalovao2	bȕdē žalovao2	bȕdēmo žalovali2	bȕdēte žalovali2	bȕdū žalovali2
Past	Perfect	žalovao sam2	žalovao si2	žalovao je2	žalovali smo2	žalovali ste2	žalovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam žalovao2	bȉo si žalovao2	bȉo je žalovao2	bíli smo žalovali2	bíli ste žalovali2	bíli su žalovali2
	Imperfect	žalovah	žalovaše	žalovaše	žalovasmo	žalovaste	žalovahu
Conditional I		žalovao bih2	žalovao bi2	žalovao bi2	žalovali bismo2	žalovali biste2	žalovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih žalovao2	bȉo bi žalovao2	bȉo bi žalovao2	bíli bismo žalovali2	bíli biste žalovali2	bíli bi žalovali2
Imperative		—	žaluj	—	žalujmo	žalujte	—
Active past participle		žalovao m / žalovala f / žalovalo n			žalovali m / žalovale f / žalovala 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

• “žalovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024