zavladati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From za- +‎ vladati.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

zavládati pf (Cyrillic spelling завла́дати)

1. (intransitive) to take over or establish the rule or reign of (+ instrumental)
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to become prevalent or dominant; to take over, dominate (silence, fear, weather, fashion etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zavladati

Infinitive: zavladati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: zavládāvši		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		zavladam	zavladaš	zavlada	zavladamo	zavladate	zavladaju
Future	Future I	zavladat ću1 zavladaću	zavladat ćeš1 zavladaćeš	zavladat će1 zavladaće	zavladat ćemo1 zavladaćemo	zavladat ćete1 zavladaćete	zavladat će1 zavladaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zavladao2	bȕdēš zavladao2	bȕdē zavladao2	bȕdēmo zavladali2	bȕdēte zavladali2	bȕdū zavladali2
Past	Perfect	zavladao sam2	zavladao si2	zavladao je2	zavladali smo2	zavladali ste2	zavladali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zavladao2	bȉo si zavladao2	bȉo je zavladao2	bíli smo zavladali2	bíli ste zavladali2	bíli su zavladali2
	Aorist	zavladah	zavlada	zavlada	zavladasmo	zavladaste	zavladaše
Conditional I		zavladao bih2	zavladao bi2	zavladao bi2	zavladali bismo2	zavladali biste2	zavladali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zavladao2	bȉo bi zavladao2	bȉo bi zavladao2	bíli bismo zavladali2	bíli biste zavladali2	bíli bi zavladali2
Imperative		—	zavladaj	—	zavladajmo	zavladajte	—
Active past participle		zavladao m / zavladala f / zavladalo n			zavladali m / zavladale f / zavladala 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

• zavladávati impf

Further reading

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