zviždati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gvizdati. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zʋǐʒdati/
• Hyphenation: zvi‧žda‧ti

Verb

zvìždati impf (Cyrillic spelling звѝждати)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to whistle

Conjugation

Conjugation of zviždati

Infinitive: zviždati		Present verbal adverb: zvìždēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zvìždānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zviždim	zviždiš	zviždi	zviždimo	zviždite	zvižde
Future	Future I	zviždat ću1 zviždaću	zviždat ćeš1 zviždaćeš	zviždat će1 zviždaće	zviždat ćemo1 zviždaćemo	zviždat ćete1 zviždaćete	zviždat će1 zviždaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zviždao2	bȕdēš zviždao2	bȕdē zviždao2	bȕdēmo zviždali2	bȕdēte zviždali2	bȕdū zviždali2
Past	Perfect	zviždao sam2	zviždao si2	zviždao je2	zviždali smo2	zviždali ste2	zviždali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zviždao2	bȉo si zviždao2	bȉo je zviždao2	bíli smo zviždali2	bíli ste zviždali2	bíli su zviždali2
	Imperfect	zviždah	zviždaše	zviždaše	zviždasmo	zviždaste	zviždahu
Conditional I		zviždao bih2	zviždao bi2	zviždao bi2	zviždali bismo2	zviždali biste2	zviždali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zviždao2	bȉo bi zviždao2	bȉo bi zviždao2	bíli bismo zviždali2	bíli biste zviždali2	bíli bi zviždali2
Imperative		—	zviždi	—	zviždimo	zviždite	—
Active past participle		zviždao m / zviždala f / zviždalo n			zviždali m / zviždale f / zviždala 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.

Further reading

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