samovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

samòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling само̀вати)

1. (intransitive) to be lonely
2. (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 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.