cvetati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

cvjètati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sʋětati/
Hyphenation: cve‧ta‧ti

Verb

cvètati impf (Cyrillic spelling цвѐтати)

(intransitive) to bloom, blossom
(intransitive, figuratively) to flourish

Conjugation

Conjugation of cvetati

Infinitive: cvetati		Present verbal adverb: cvètajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cvètānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cvetam	cvetaš	cveta	cvetamo	cvetate	cvetaju
Future	Future I	cvetat ću¹ cvetaću	cvetat ćeš¹ cvetaćeš	cvetat će¹ cvetaće	cvetat ćemo¹ cvetaćemo	cvetat ćete¹ cvetaćete	cvetat će¹ cvetaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm cvetao²	bȕdēš cvetao²	bȕdē cvetao²	bȕdēmo cvetali²	bȕdēte cvetali²	bȕdū cvetali²
Past	Perfect	cvetao sam²	cvetao si²	cvetao je²	cvetali smo²	cvetali ste²	cvetali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam cvetao²	bȉo si cvetao²	bȉo je cvetao²	bíli smo cvetali²	bíli ste cvetali²	bíli su cvetali²
	Imperfect	cvetah	cvetaše	cvetaše	cvetasmo	cvetaste	cvetahu
Conditional I		cvetao bih²	cvetao bi²	cvetao bi²	cvetali bismo²	cvetali biste²	cvetali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih cvetao²	bȉo bi cvetao²	bȉo bi cvetao²	bíli bismo cvetali²	bíli biste cvetali²	bíli bi cvetali²
Imperative		—	cvetaj	—	cvetajmo	cvetajte	—
Active past participle		cvetao m / cvetala f / cvetalo n			cvetali m / cvetale f / cvetala 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.