uspavati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

u- +‎ spavati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uspǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: u‧spa‧va‧ti

Verb

uspávati pf (Cyrillic spelling успа́вати)

1. (transitive) to put to sleep
2. (transitive) to benumb, deaden
3. (reflexive) to oversleep

Conjugation

Conjugation of uspavati

Infinitive: uspavati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: uspávāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		uspavam	uspavaš	uspava	uspavamo	uspavate	uspavaju
Future	Future I	uspavat ću1 uspavaću	uspavat ćeš1 uspavaćeš	uspavat će1 uspavaće	uspavat ćemo1 uspavaćemo	uspavat ćete1 uspavaćete	uspavat će1 uspavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm uspavao2	bȕdēš uspavao2	bȕdē uspavao2	bȕdēmo uspavali2	bȕdēte uspavali2	bȕdū uspavali2
Past	Perfect	uspavao sam2	uspavao si2	uspavao je2	uspavali smo2	uspavali ste2	uspavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam uspavao2	bȉo si uspavao2	bȉo je uspavao2	bíli smo uspavali2	bíli ste uspavali2	bíli su uspavali2
	Aorist	uspavah	uspava	uspava	uspavasmo	uspavaste	uspavaše
Conditional I		uspavao bih2	uspavao bi2	uspavao bi2	uspavali bismo2	uspavali biste2	uspavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih uspavao2	bȉo bi uspavao2	bȉo bi uspavao2	bíli bismo uspavali2	bíli biste uspavali2	bíli bi uspavali2
Imperative		—	uspavaj	—	uspavajmo	uspavajte	—
Active past participle		uspavao m / uspavala f / uspavalo n			uspavali m / uspavale f / uspavala n
Passive past participle		uspavan m / uspavana f / uspavano n			uspavani m / uspavane f / uspavana 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

• uspavljívati impf

References

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