kovitlati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Akin to Russian ковыля́ть (kovyljátʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koʋǐtlati/
• Hyphenation: ko‧vit‧la‧ti

Verb

kovìtlati impf (Cyrillic spelling ковѝтлати)

1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to swirl, whirl, spin

Conjugation

Conjugation of kovitlati

Infinitive: kovitlati		Present verbal adverb: kovìtlajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kovìtlānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kovitlam	kovitlaš	kovitla	kovitlamo	kovitlate	kovitlaju
Future	Future I	kovitlat ću1 kovitlaću	kovitlat ćeš1 kovitlaćeš	kovitlat će1 kovitlaće	kovitlat ćemo1 kovitlaćemo	kovitlat ćete1 kovitlaćete	kovitlat će1 kovitlaće
	Future II	bȕdēm kovitlao2	bȕdēš kovitlao2	bȕdē kovitlao2	bȕdēmo kovitlali2	bȕdēte kovitlali2	bȕdū kovitlali2
Past	Perfect	kovitlao sam2	kovitlao si2	kovitlao je2	kovitlali smo2	kovitlali ste2	kovitlali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kovitlao2	bȉo si kovitlao2	bȉo je kovitlao2	bíli smo kovitlali2	bíli ste kovitlali2	bíli su kovitlali2
	Imperfect	kovitlah	kovitlaše	kovitlaše	kovitlasmo	kovitlaste	kovitlahu
Conditional I		kovitlao bih2	kovitlao bi2	kovitlao bi2	kovitlali bismo2	kovitlali biste2	kovitlali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kovitlao2	bȉo bi kovitlao2	bȉo bi kovitlao2	bíli bismo kovitlali2	bíli biste kovitlali2	bíli bi kovitlali2
Imperative		—	kovitlaj	—	kovitlajmo	kovitlajte	—
Active past participle		kovitlao m / kovitlala f / kovitlalo n			kovitlali m / kovitlale f / kovitlala n
Passive past participle		kovitlan m / kovitlana f / kovitlano n			kovitlani m / kovitlane f / kovitlana 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

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