ovladavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʋladǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: o‧vla‧da‧va‧ti

Verb

ovladávati impf (Cyrillic spelling овлада́вати)

1. (intransitive) to establish control over something; to control (+instrumental)
2. (intransitive) to master (technique, process, language etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ovladavati

Infinitive: ovladavati		Present verbal adverb: ovladávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ovladávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ovladavam	ovladavaš	ovladava	ovladavamo	ovladavate	ovladavaju
Future	Future I	ovladavat ću1 ovladavaću	ovladavat ćeš1 ovladavaćeš	ovladavat će1 ovladavaće	ovladavat ćemo1 ovladavaćemo	ovladavat ćete1 ovladavaćete	ovladavat će1 ovladavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm ovladavao2	bȕdēš ovladavao2	bȕdē ovladavao2	bȕdēmo ovladavali2	bȕdēte ovladavali2	bȕdū ovladavali2
Past	Perfect	ovladavao sam2	ovladavao si2	ovladavao je2	ovladavali smo2	ovladavali ste2	ovladavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ovladavao2	bȉo si ovladavao2	bȉo je ovladavao2	bíli smo ovladavali2	bíli ste ovladavali2	bíli su ovladavali2
	Imperfect	ovladavah	ovladavaše	ovladavaše	ovladavasmo	ovladavaste	ovladavahu
Conditional I		ovladavao bih2	ovladavao bi2	ovladavao bi2	ovladavali bismo2	ovladavali biste2	ovladavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ovladavao2	bȉo bi ovladavao2	bȉo bi ovladavao2	bíli bismo ovladavali2	bíli biste ovladavali2	bíli bi ovladavali2
Imperative		—	ovladavaj	—	ovladavajmo	ovladavajte	—
Active past participle		ovladavao m / ovladavala f / ovladavalo n			ovladavali m / ovladavale f / ovladavala n
Passive past participle		ovladavan m / ovladavana f / ovladavano n			ovladavani m / ovladavane f / ovladavana 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.

Related terms

• ovládati pf

Further reading

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