žderati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• ždrȁti (alternative infinitive)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žьrati, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”). First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒděrati/
• Hyphenation: žde‧ra‧ti

Verb

ždèrati impf (Cyrillic spelling ждѐрати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to gorge on (food), stuff oneself with (food), stuff one's face, pig out

Conjugation

Conjugation of žderati

Infinitive: žderati		Present verbal adverb: ždȅrūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ždèrānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		žderem	ždereš	ždere	žderemo	žderete	žderu
Future	Future I	žderat ću1 žderaću	žderat ćeš1 žderaćeš	žderat će1 žderaće	žderat ćemo1 žderaćemo	žderat ćete1 žderaćete	žderat će1 žderaće
	Future II	bȕdēm žderao2	bȕdēš žderao2	bȕdē žderao2	bȕdēmo žderali2	bȕdēte žderali2	bȕdū žderali2
Past	Perfect	žderao sam2	žderao si2	žderao je2	žderali smo2	žderali ste2	žderali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam žderao2	bȉo si žderao2	bȉo je žderao2	bíli smo žderali2	bíli ste žderali2	bíli su žderali2
	Imperfect	žderah	žderaše	žderaše	žderasmo	žderaste	žderahu
Conditional I		žderao bih2	žderao bi2	žderao bi2	žderali bismo2	žderali biste2	žderali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih žderao2	bȉo bi žderao2	bȉo bi žderao2	bíli bismo žderali2	bíli biste žderali2	bíli bi žderali2
Imperative		—	žderi	—	žderimo	žderite	—
Active past participle		žderao m / žderala f / žderalo n			žderali m / žderale f / žderala n
Passive past participle		žderan m / žderana f / žderano n			žderani m / žderane f / žderana 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.

Derived terms

• naždèrati
• poždèrati
• preždèrati