smagati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smǎːɡati/
• Hyphenation: sma‧ga‧ti

Verb

smágati impf (Cyrillic spelling сма́гати)

1. (intransitive) to find, obtain (of time, money, resources..) (+ genitive)
2. (intransitive) to be able

Conjugation

Conjugation of smagati

Infinitive: smagati		Present verbal adverb: smážūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: smágānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		smažem	smažeš	smaže	smažemo	smažete	smažu
Future	Future I	smagat ću1 smagaću	smagat ćeš1 smagaćeš	smagat će1 smagaće	smagat ćemo1 smagaćemo	smagat ćete1 smagaćete	smagat će1 smagaće
	Future II	bȕdēm smagao2	bȕdēš smagao2	bȕdē smagao2	bȕdēmo smagali2	bȕdēte smagali2	bȕdū smagali2
Past	Perfect	smagao sam2	smagao si2	smagao je2	smagali smo2	smagali ste2	smagali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam smagao2	bȉo si smagao2	bȉo je smagao2	bíli smo smagali2	bíli ste smagali2	bíli su smagali2
	Imperfect	smagah	smagaše	smagaše	smagasmo	smagaste	smagahu
Conditional I		smagao bih2	smagao bi2	smagao bi2	smagali bismo2	smagali biste2	smagali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih smagao2	bȉo bi smagao2	bȉo bi smagao2	bíli bismo smagali2	bíli biste smagali2	bíli bi smagali2
Imperative		—	smaži	—	smažimo	smažite	—
Active past participle		smagao m / smagala f / smagalo n			smagali m / smagale f / smagala 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

• smȍći pf

Further reading

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