balaviti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâlaʋiti/
• Hyphenation: ba‧la‧vi‧ti

Verb

bȁlaviti impf (Cyrillic spelling ба̏лавити)

1. (intransitive) to snivel
2. (intransitive) to drool; to slobber

Conjugation

Conjugation of balaviti

Infinitive: balaviti		Present verbal adverb: bȁlavēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bȁlavljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		balavim	balaviš	balavi	balavimo	balavite	balave
Future	Future I	balavit ću1 balaviću	balavit ćeš1 balavićeš	balavit će1 balaviće	balavit ćemo1 balavićemo	balavit ćete1 balavićete	balavit će1 balaviće
	Future II	bȕdēm balavio2	bȕdēš balavio2	bȕdē balavio2	bȕdēmo balavili2	bȕdēte balavili2	bȕdū balavili2
Past	Perfect	balavio sam2	balavio si2	balavio je2	balavili smo2	balavili ste2	balavili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam balavio2	bȉo si balavio2	bȉo je balavio2	bíli smo balavili2	bíli ste balavili2	bíli su balavili2
	Imperfect	balavljah	balavljaše	balavljaše	balavljasmo	balavljaste	balavljahu
Conditional I		balavio bih2	balavio bi2	balavio bi2	balavili bismo2	balavili biste2	balavili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih balavio2	bȉo bi balavio2	bȉo bi balavio2	bíli bismo balavili2	bíli biste balavili2	bíli bi balavili2
Imperative		—	balavi	—	balavimo	balavite	—
Active past participle		balavio m / balavila f / balavilo n			balavili m / balavile f / balavila n
Passive past participle		balavljen m / balavljena f / balavljeno n			balavljeni m / balavljene f / balavljena 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

• “balaviti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024