uviti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *uviti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔʋiti/
• Hyphenation: u‧vi‧ti

Verb

ùviti pf (Cyrillic spelling у̀вити)

1. (intransitive) to beat around the bush
2. (reflexive) to twist, roll, bend (with one's body or a body part)
3. (transitive) to twist, roll, bend
4. (transitive) to curl (hair)

Conjugation

Conjugation of uviti

Infinitive: uviti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: ùvīvši		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		uvijem	uviješ	uvije	uvijemo	uvijete	uviju
Future	Future I	uvit ću1 uviću	uvit ćeš1 uvićeš	uvit će1 uviće	uvit ćemo1 uvićemo	uvit ćete1 uvićete	uvit će1 uviće
	Future II	bȕdēm uvio2	bȕdēš uvio2	bȕdē uvio2	bȕdēmo uvili2	bȕdēte uvili2	bȕdū uvili2
Past	Perfect	uvio sam2	uvio si2	uvio je2	uvili smo2	uvili ste2	uvili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam uvio2	bȉo si uvio2	bȉo je uvio2	bíli smo uvili2	bíli ste uvili2	bíli su uvili2
	Aorist	uvih	uvi	uvi	uvismo	uviste	uviše
Conditional I		uvio bih2	uvio bi2	uvio bi2	uvili bismo2	uvili biste2	uvili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih uvio2	bȉo bi uvio2	bȉo bi uvio2	bíli bismo uvili2	bíli biste uvili2	bíli bi uvili2
Imperative		—	uvij	—	uvijmo	uvijte	—
Active past participle		uvio m / uvila f / uvilo n			uvili m / uvile f / uvila n
Passive past participle		uvijen / uvit m / uvijena / uvita f / uvijeno / uvito n			uvijeni / uviti m / uvijene / uvite f / uvijena / uvita 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

• uvíjati impf

References

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