samovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /samǒʋati/
Hyphenation: sa‧mo‧va‧ti

Verb

samòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling само̀вати)

(intransitive) to be lonely
(intransitive) to live a lonely life

Conjugation

Conjugation of samovati

Infinitive: samovati		Present verbal adverb: sàmujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: samòvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		samujem	samuješ	samuje	samujemo	samujete	samuju
Future	Future I	samovat ću¹ samovaću	samovat ćeš¹ samovaćeš	samovat će¹ samovaće	samovat ćemo¹ samovaćemo	samovat ćete¹ samovaćete	samovat će¹ samovaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm samovao²	bȕdēš samovao²	bȕdē samovao²	bȕdēmo samovali²	bȕdēte samovali²	bȕdū samovali²
Past	Perfect	samovao sam²	samovao si²	samovao je²	samovali smo²	samovali ste²	samovali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam samovao²	bȉo si samovao²	bȉo je samovao²	bíli smo samovali²	bíli ste samovali²	bíli su samovali²
	Imperfect	samovah	samovaše	samovaše	samovasmo	samovaste	samovahu
Conditional I		samovao bih²	samovao bi²	samovao bi²	samovali bismo²	samovali biste²	samovali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih samovao²	bȉo bi samovao²	bȉo bi samovao²	bíli bismo samovali²	bíli biste samovali²	bíli bi samovali²
Imperative		—	samuj	—	samujmo	samujte	—
Active past participle		samovao m / samovala f / samovalo n			samovali m / samovale f / samovala 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.