savladati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sa- +‎ vladati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʋlǎːdati/
• Hyphenation: sa‧vla‧da‧ti

Verb

savládati pf (Cyrillic spelling савла́дати)

1. (transitive) to defeat (opponent, enemy)
2. (transitive) to overcome, surmount (difficulty, obstacle, fear etc.)
3. (transitive) to learn, to master (to a high degree of proficiency)
4. (reflexive) to control oneself, restrain oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of savladati

infinitive		savladati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		savládāvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		svladam	svladaš	svlada	svladamo	svladate	svladaju
future	future I	svladat ću1 svladaću	svladat ćeš1 svladaćeš	svladat će1 svladaće	svladat ćemo1 svladaćemo	svladat ćete1 svladaćete	svladat ćē1 svladaće
	future II	bȕdēm svladao2	bȕdēš svladao2	bȕdē svladao2	bȕdēmo svladali2	bȕdēte svladali2	bȕdū svladali2
past	perfect	svladao sam2	svladao si2	svladao je2	svladali smo2	svladali ste2	svladali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam svladao2	bȉo si svladao2	bȉo je svladao2	bíli smo svladali2	bíli ste svladali2	bíli su svladali2
	aorist	svladah	svlada	svlada	svladasmo	svladaste	svladaše
conditional	conditional I	svladao bih2	svladao bi2	svladao bi2	svladali bismo2	svladali biste2	svladali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih svladao2	bȉo bi svladao2	bȉo bi svladao2	bíli bismo svladali2	bíli biste svladali2	bíli bi svladali2
imperative		—	svladaj	—	svladajmo	svladajte	—
active past participle		svladao m / svladala f / svladalo n			svladali m / svladale f / svladala n
passive past participle		svladan m / svladana f / svladano n			svladani m / svladane f / svladana 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

• savladávati / savlađívati impf

Further reading

• “savladati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025