mačevati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mât͡ʃeʋati/
Hyphenation: ma‧če‧va‧ti

Verb

mȁčevati impf (Cyrillic spelling ма̏чевати)

(reflexive) to fence (engage in fencing)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mačevati

Infinitive: mačevati		Present verbal adverb: màčujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: mȁčevānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mačujem	mačuješ	mačuje	mačujemo	mačujete	mačuju
Future	Future I	mačevat ću¹ mačevaću	mačevat ćeš¹ mačevaćeš	mačevat će¹ mačevaće	mačevat ćemo¹ mačevaćemo	mačevat ćete¹ mačevaćete	mačevat će¹ mačevaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm mačevao²	bȕdēš mačevao²	bȕdē mačevao²	bȕdēmo mačevali²	bȕdēte mačevali²	bȕdū mačevali²
Past	Perfect	mačevao sam²	mačevao si²	mačevao je²	mačevali smo²	mačevali ste²	mačevali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam mačevao²	bȉo si mačevao²	bȉo je mačevao²	bíli smo mačevali²	bíli ste mačevali²	bíli su mačevali²
	Imperfect	mačevah	mačevaše	mačevaše	mačevasmo	mačevaste	mačevahu
Conditional I		mačevao bih²	mačevao bi²	mačevao bi²	mačevali bismo²	mačevali biste²	mačevali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih mačevao²	bȉo bi mačevao²	bȉo bi mačevao²	bíli bismo mačevali²	bíli biste mačevali²	bíli bi mačevali²
Imperative		—	mačuj	—	mačujmo	mačujte	—
Active past participle		mačevao m / mačevala f / mačevalo n			mačevali m / mačevale f / mačevala 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.

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