svladavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʋladǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: svla‧da‧va‧ti

Verb

svladávati impf (Cyrillic spelling свлада́вати)

1. (transitive) to defeat (opponent, enemy)
2. (transitive) to overcome, surmount (difficulty, obstacle, fear etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of svladavati

Infinitive: svladavati		Present verbal adverb: svladávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: svladávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		svladavam	svladavaš	svladava	svladavamo	svladavate	svladavaju
Future	Future I	svladavat ću1 svladavaću	svladavat ćeš1 svladavaćeš	svladavat će1 svladavaće	svladavat ćemo1 svladavaćemo	svladavat ćete1 svladavaćete	svladavat će1 svladavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm svladavao2	bȕdēš svladavao2	bȕdē svladavao2	bȕdēmo svladavali2	bȕdēte svladavali2	bȕdū svladavali2
Past	Perfect	svladavao sam2	svladavao si2	svladavao je2	svladavali smo2	svladavali ste2	svladavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam svladavao2	bȉo si svladavao2	bȉo je svladavao2	bíli smo svladavali2	bíli ste svladavali2	bíli su svladavali2
	Imperfect	svladavah	svladavaše	svladavaše	svladavasmo	svladavaste	svladavahu
Conditional I		svladavao bih2	svladavao bi2	svladavao bi2	svladavali bismo2	svladavali biste2	svladavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih svladavao2	bȉo bi svladavao2	bȉo bi svladavao2	bíli bismo svladavali2	bíli biste svladavali2	bíli bi svladavali2
Imperative		—	svladavaj	—	svladavajmo	svladavajte	—
Active past participle		svladavao m / svladavala f / svladavalo n			svladavali m / svladavale f / svladavala n
Passive past participle		svladavan m / svladavana f / svladavano n			svladavani m / svladavane f / svladavana 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

• svládati pf

Further reading

• “svladavati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024