smanjivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smaɲǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: sma‧nji‧va‧ti

Verb

smanjívati impf (Cyrillic spelling смањи́вати)

1. (transitive) to reduce, lessen, make smaller (in size or volume, also figuratively)

Conjugation

Conjugation of smanjivati

Infinitive: smanjivati		Present verbal adverb: smànjujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: smanjívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		smanjujem	smanjuješ	smanjuje	smanjujemo	smanjujete	smanjuju
Future	Future I	smanjivat ću1 smanjivaću	smanjivat ćeš1 smanjivaćeš	smanjivat će1 smanjivaće	smanjivat ćemo1 smanjivaćemo	smanjivat ćete1 smanjivaćete	smanjivat će1 smanjivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm smanjivao2	bȕdēš smanjivao2	bȕdē smanjivao2	bȕdēmo smanjivali2	bȕdēte smanjivali2	bȕdū smanjivali2
Past	Perfect	smanjivao sam2	smanjivao si2	smanjivao je2	smanjivali smo2	smanjivali ste2	smanjivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam smanjivao2	bȉo si smanjivao2	bȉo je smanjivao2	bíli smo smanjivali2	bíli ste smanjivali2	bíli su smanjivali2
	Imperfect	smanjivah	smanjivaše	smanjivaše	smanjivasmo	smanjivaste	smanjivahu
Conditional I		smanjivao bih2	smanjivao bi2	smanjivao bi2	smanjivali bismo2	smanjivali biste2	smanjivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih smanjivao2	bȉo bi smanjivao2	bȉo bi smanjivao2	bíli bismo smanjivali2	bíli biste smanjivali2	bíli bi smanjivali2
Imperative		—	smanjuj	—	smanjujmo	smanjujte	—
Active past participle		smanjivao m / smanjivala f / smanjivalo n			smanjivali m / smanjivale f / smanjivala n
Passive past participle		smanjivan m / smanjivana f / smanjivano n			smanjivani m / smanjivane f / smanjivana 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

• smánjiti pf

Further reading

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