svirati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *svirati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʋǐːrati/
• Hyphenation: svi‧ra‧ti

Verb

svírati impf (Cyrillic spelling сви́рати)

1. (transitive, intransitive, music) to play (an instrument)

Conjugation

Conjugation of svirati

Infinitive: svirati		Present verbal adverb: svírajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: svírānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		sviram	sviraš	svira	sviramo	svirate	sviraju
Future	Future I	svirat ću1 sviraću	svirat ćeš1 sviraćeš	svirat će1 sviraće	svirat ćemo1 sviraćemo	svirat ćete1 sviraćete	svirat će1 sviraće
	Future II	bȕdēm svirao2	bȕdēš svirao2	bȕdē svirao2	bȕdēmo svirali2	bȕdēte svirali2	bȕdū svirali2
Past	Perfect	svirao sam2	svirao si2	svirao je2	svirali smo2	svirali ste2	svirali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam svirao2	bȉo si svirao2	bȉo je svirao2	bíli smo svirali2	bíli ste svirali2	bíli su svirali2
	Imperfect	svirah	sviraše	sviraše	svirasmo	sviraste	svirahu
Conditional I		svirao bih2	svirao bi2	svirao bi2	svirali bismo2	svirali biste2	svirali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih svirao2	bȉo bi svirao2	bȉo bi svirao2	bíli bismo svirali2	bíli biste svirali2	bíli bi svirali2
Imperative		—	sviraj	—	svirajmo	svirajte	—
Active past participle		svirao m / svirala f / sviralo n			svirali m / svirale f / svirala 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.

Derived terms

• odsvírati
• prosvírati
• zasvírati

Further reading

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