daviti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *daviti (Russian дави́ть (davítʹ), Polish dławić).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǎːʋiti/
• Hyphenation: da‧vi‧ti

Verb

dáviti impf (Cyrillic spelling да́вити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to choke, strangle
2. (transitive, reflexive) to drown
3. (transitive, informal) to annoy, to bother, to pester

Conjugation

Conjugation of daviti

Infinitive: daviti		Present verbal adverb: dávēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dávljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		davim	daviš	davi	davimo	davite	dave
Future	Future I	davit ću1 daviću	davit ćeš1 davićeš	davit će1 daviće	davit ćemo1 davićemo	davit ćete1 davićete	davit će1 daviće
	Future II	bȕdēm davio2	bȕdēš davio2	bȕdē davio2	bȕdēmo davili2	bȕdēte davili2	bȕdū davili2
Past	Perfect	davio sam2	davio si2	davio je2	davili smo2	davili ste2	davili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam davio2	bȉo si davio2	bȉo je davio2	bíli smo davili2	bíli ste davili2	bíli su davili2
	Imperfect	davljah	davljaše	davljaše	davljasmo	davljaste	davljahu
Conditional I		davio bih2	davio bi2	davio bi2	davili bismo2	davili biste2	davili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih davio2	bȉo bi davio2	bȉo bi davio2	bíli bismo davili2	bíli biste davili2	bíli bi davili2
Imperative		—	davi	—	davimo	davite	—
Active past participle		davio m / davila f / davilo n			davili m / davile f / davila n
Passive past participle		davljen m / davljena f / davljeno n			davljeni m / davljene f / davljena 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.

References

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