vladati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *voldati, alternative form of *volděti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *walˀdā́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁dʰh₁-, from *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋlǎːdati/
• Hyphenation: vla‧da‧ti

Verb

vládati impf (Cyrillic spelling вла́дати)

1. (intransitive) to rule, reign, govern (+ instrumental)
2. (intransitive) to master, have high degree of proficiency in (+ instrumental) (of a skill, language etc.)
3. (reflexive) to behave

Conjugation

Conjugation of vladati

infinitive		vladati
present verbal adverb		vládajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		vládānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		vladam	vladaš	vlada	vladamo	vladate	vladaju
future	future I	vladat ću1 vladaću	vladat ćeš1 vladaćeš	vladat će1 vladaće	vladat ćemo1 vladaćemo	vladat ćete1 vladaćete	vladat ćē1 vladaće
	future II	bȕdēm vladao2	bȕdēš vladao2	bȕdē vladao2	bȕdēmo vladali2	bȕdēte vladali2	bȕdū vladali2
past	perfect	vladao sam2	vladao si2	vladao je2	vladali smo2	vladali ste2	vladali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam vladao2	bȉo si vladao2	bȉo je vladao2	bíli smo vladali2	bíli ste vladali2	bíli su vladali2
	imperfect	vladah	vlada	vlada	vladasmo	vladaste	vladaše
conditional	conditional I	vladao bih2	vladao bi2	vladao bi2	vladali bismo2	vladali biste2	vladali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih vladao2	bȉo bi vladao2	bȉo bi vladao2	bíli bismo vladali2	bíli biste vladali2	bíli bi vladali2
imperative		—	vladaj	—	vladajmo	vladajte	—
active past participle		vladao m / vladala f / vladalo n			vladali m / vladale f / vladala 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

• nadvládati
• ovládati
• prevládati
• savládati
• svládati
• zavládati

Further reading

• “vladati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *voldati, alternative form of *volděti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *walˀdā́ˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁dʰh₁-, from *h₂welh₁- (“to rule”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋlàːdati/, /ʋláːdati/

Verb

vlādati impf

1. to rule, to reign, to govern

Conjugation

-ati -am (both)
infinitive	vlādati
1st singular	vlādam
infinitive	vlādati			vlādat
supine	vlādat
verbal noun	vlādanje
	participle			converb
present	vladajọ̄č			vladȃje
past	vlādan			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	vlādał		vlādala		vlādalo
dual	vlādala		vlādali		vlādali
plural	vlādali		vlādale		vlādala
	present			imperative
1st singular	vlādam			—
2nd singular	vlādaš			vlādaj
3rd singular	vlāda			—
1st dual	vlādava			vlādajva
2nd dual	vlādata			vlādajta
3rd dual	vlādata			—
1st plural	vlādamo			vlādajmo
2nd plural	vlādate			vlādajte
3rd plural	vlādajo			—

Derived terms

• nadvlādati
• obvlādati
• prevlādati
• zavlādati

Further reading

• “vladati”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “vladati”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references