savijati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʋǐːjati/
• Hyphenation: sa‧vi‧ja‧ti

Verb

savíjati impf (Cyrillic spelling сави́јати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to bend
2. (transitive, reflexive) to fold
3. (transitive, reflexive) to roll, curl

Conjugation

Conjugation of savijati

Infinitive: savijati		Present verbal adverb: savíjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: savíjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		savijam	savijaš	savija	savijamo	savijate	savijaju
Future	Future I	savijat ću1 savijaću	savijat ćeš1 savijaćeš	savijat će1 savijaće	savijat ćemo1 savijaćemo	savijat ćete1 savijaćete	savijat će1 savijaće
	Future II	bȕdēm savijao2	bȕdēš savijao2	bȕdē savijao2	bȕdēmo savijali2	bȕdēte savijali2	bȕdū savijali2
Past	Perfect	savijao sam2	savijao si2	savijao je2	savijali smo2	savijali ste2	savijali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam savijao2	bȉo si savijao2	bȉo je savijao2	bíli smo savijali2	bíli ste savijali2	bíli su savijali2
	Imperfect	savijah	savijaše	savijaše	savijasmo	savijaste	savijahu
Conditional I		savijao bih2	savijao bi2	savijao bi2	savijali bismo2	savijali biste2	savijali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih savijao2	bȉo bi savijao2	bȉo bi savijao2	bíli bismo savijali2	bíli biste savijali2	bíli bi savijali2
Imperative		—	savijaj	—	savijajmo	savijajte	—
Active past participle		savijao m / savijala f / savijalo n			savijali m / savijale f / savijala n
Passive past participle		savijan m / savijana f / savijano n			savijani m / savijane f / savijana 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

• sàviti / savínuti pf

Further reading

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