spašavati

See also: spasavati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• spasávati (alternative infinitive)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spaʃǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: spa‧ša‧va‧ti

Verb

spašávati impf (Cyrillic spelling спаша́вати)

1. imperfective form of spásiti
2. imperfective form of spásti

Conjugation

Conjugation of spašavati

Infinitive: spašavati		Present verbal adverb: spašávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: spašávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		spašavam	spašavaš	spašava	spašavamo	spašavate	spašavaju
Future	Future I	spašavat ću1 spašavaću	spašavat ćeš1 spašavaćeš	spašavat će1 spašavaće	spašavat ćemo1 spašavaćemo	spašavat ćete1 spašavaćete	spašavat će1 spašavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm spašavao2	bȕdēš spašavao2	bȕdē spašavao2	bȕdēmo spašavali2	bȕdēte spašavali2	bȕdū spašavali2
Past	Perfect	spašavao sam2	spašavao si2	spašavao je2	spašavali smo2	spašavali ste2	spašavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam spašavao2	bȉo si spašavao2	bȉo je spašavao2	bíli smo spašavali2	bíli ste spašavali2	bíli su spašavali2
	Imperfect	spašavah	spašavaše	spašavaše	spašavasmo	spašavaste	spašavahu
Conditional I		spašavao bih2	spašavao bi2	spašavao bi2	spašavali bismo2	spašavali biste2	spašavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih spašavao2	bȉo bi spašavao2	bȉo bi spašavao2	bíli bismo spašavali2	bíli biste spašavali2	bíli bi spašavali2
Imperative		—	spašavaj	—	spašavajmo	spašavajte	—
Active past participle		spašavao m / spašavala f / spašavalo n			spašavali m / spašavale f / spašavala n
Passive past participle		spašavan m / spašavana f / spašavano n			spašavani m / spašavane f / spašavana 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.

Further reading

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