zavladavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

zavladávati impf (Cyrillic spelling завлада́вати)

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 zavladavati

Infinitive: zavladavati		Present verbal adverb: zavladávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zavladávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zavladavam	zavladavaš	zavladava	zavladavamo	zavladavate	zavladavaju
Future	Future I	zavladavat ću1 zavladavaću	zavladavat ćeš1 zavladavaćeš	zavladavat će1 zavladavaće	zavladavat ćemo1 zavladavaćemo	zavladavat ćete1 zavladavaćete	zavladavat će1 zavladavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zavladavao2	bȕdēš zavladavao2	bȕdē zavladavao2	bȕdēmo zavladavali2	bȕdēte zavladavali2	bȕdū zavladavali2
Past	Perfect	zavladavao sam2	zavladavao si2	zavladavao je2	zavladavali smo2	zavladavali ste2	zavladavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zavladavao2	bȉo si zavladavao2	bȉo je zavladavao2	bíli smo zavladavali2	bíli ste zavladavali2	bíli su zavladavali2
	Imperfect	zavladavah	zavladavaše	zavladavaše	zavladavasmo	zavladavaste	zavladavahu
Conditional I		zavladavao bih2	zavladavao bi2	zavladavao bi2	zavladavali bismo2	zavladavali biste2	zavladavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zavladavao2	bȉo bi zavladavao2	bȉo bi zavladavao2	bíli bismo zavladavali2	bíli biste zavladavali2	bíli bi zavladavali2
Imperative		—	zavladavaj	—	zavladavajmo	zavladavajte	—
Active past participle		zavladavao m / zavladavala f / zavladavalo n			zavladavali m / zavladavale f / zavladavala n
Passive past participle		zavladavan m / zavladavana f / zavladavano n			zavladavani m / zavladavane f / zavladavana 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

• zavládati pf

Further reading

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