stvarati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Formed as an imperfective form of stvòriti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʋǎːrati/
• Hyphenation: stva‧ra‧ti

Verb

stvárati impf (Cyrillic spelling ства́рати)

1. (transitive) to create

Conjugation

Conjugation of stvarati

Infinitive: stvarati		Present verbal adverb: stvárajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: stvárānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		stvaram	stvaraš	stvara	stvaramo	stvarate	stvaraju
Future	Future I	stvarat ću1 stvaraću	stvarat ćeš1 stvaraćeš	stvarat će1 stvaraće	stvarat ćemo1 stvaraćemo	stvarat ćete1 stvaraćete	stvarat će1 stvaraće
	Future II	bȕdēm stvarao2	bȕdēš stvarao2	bȕdē stvarao2	bȕdēmo stvarali2	bȕdēte stvarali2	bȕdū stvarali2
Past	Perfect	stvarao sam2	stvarao si2	stvarao je2	stvarali smo2	stvarali ste2	stvarali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam stvarao2	bȉo si stvarao2	bȉo je stvarao2	bíli smo stvarali2	bíli ste stvarali2	bíli su stvarali2
	Imperfect	stvarah	stvaraše	stvaraše	stvarasmo	stvaraste	stvarahu
Conditional I		stvarao bih2	stvarao bi2	stvarao bi2	stvarali bismo2	stvarali biste2	stvarali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih stvarao2	bȉo bi stvarao2	bȉo bi stvarao2	bíli bismo stvarali2	bíli biste stvarali2	bíli bi stvarali2
Imperative		—	stvaraj	—	stvarajmo	stvarajte	—
Active past participle		stvarao m / stvarala f / stvaralo n			stvarali m / stvarale f / stvarala n
Passive past participle		stvaran m / stvarana f / stvarano n			stvarani m / stvarane f / stvarana 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

• stvòriti pf

Further reading

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