sažaliti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sa- +‎ žaliti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎʒaliti/
• Hyphenation: sa‧ža‧li‧ti

Verb

sàžaliti pf (Cyrillic spelling са̀жалити)

1. (reflexive) to pity, take pity on (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of sažaliti

Infinitive: sažaliti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: sàžalīvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sažalim	sažališ	sažali	sažalimo	sažalite	sažale
Future	Future I	sažalit ću1 sažaliću	sažalit ćeš1 sažalićeš	sažalit će1 sažaliće	sažalit ćemo1 sažalićemo	sažalit ćete1 sažalićete	sažalit će1 sažaliće
	Future II	bȕdēm sažalio2	bȕdēš sažalio2	bȕdē sažalio2	bȕdēmo sažalili2	bȕdēte sažalili2	bȕdū sažalili2
Past	Perfect	sažalio sam2	sažalio si2	sažalio je2	sažalili smo2	sažalili ste2	sažalili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam sažalio2	bȉo si sažalio2	bȉo je sažalio2	bíli smo sažalili2	bíli ste sažalili2	bíli su sažalili2
	Aorist	sažalih	sažali	sažali	sažalismo	sažaliste	sažališe
Conditional I		sažalio bih2	sažalio bi2	sažalio bi2	sažalili bismo2	sažalili biste2	sažalili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih sažalio2	bȉo bi sažalio2	bȉo bi sažalio2	bíli bismo sažalili2	bíli biste sažalili2	bíli bi sažalili2
Imperative		—	sažali	—	sažalimo	sažalite	—
Active past participle		sažalio m / sažalila f / sažalilo n			sažalili m / sažalile f / sažalila 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

• sažalijévati / sažaljévati impf

Further reading

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