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shvaćati

shvaćati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Bosnia, Serbia): shvȁtati

Verb

shvȁćati impf ‎(Cyrillic spelling схва̏ћати)

(Croatia, transitive, intransitive) imperfective form of shvȁtiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of shvaćati

Infinitive: shvaćati		Present verbal adverb: shvȁćajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: shvȁćānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		shvaćam	shvaćaš	shvaća	shvaćamo	shvaćate	shvaćaju
Future	Future I	shvaćat ću² shvaćaću	shvaćat ćeš² shvaćaćeš	shvaćat će² shvaćaće	shvaćat ćemo² shvaćaćemo	shvaćat ćete² shvaćaćete	shvaćat će² shvaćaće
Future	Future II	budem shvaćao¹	budeš shvaćao¹	bude shvaćao¹	budemo shvaćali¹	budete shvaćali¹	budu shvaćali¹
Past	Perfect	shvaćao sam¹	shvaćao si¹	shvaćao je¹	shvaćali smo¹	shvaćali ste¹	shvaćali su¹
	Pluperfect	bio sam shvaćao¹	bio si shvaćao¹	bio je shvaćao¹	bili smo shvaćali¹	bili ste shvaćali¹	bili su shvaćali¹
	Imperfect	shvaćah	shvaćaše	shvaćaše	shvaćasmo	shvaćaste	shvaćahu
Conditional I		shvaćao bih¹	shvaćao bi¹	shvaćao bi¹	shvaćali bismo¹	shvaćali biste¹	shvaćali bi¹
Conditional II		bio bih shvaćao¹	bio bi shvaćao¹	bio bi shvaćao¹	bili bismo shvaćali¹	bili biste shvaćali¹	bili bi shvaćali¹
Imperative		—	shvaćaj	—	shvaćajmo	shvaćajte	—
Active past participle		shvaćao m / shvaćala f / shvaćalo n			shvaćali m / shvaćale f / shvaćala n
Passive past participle		shvaćan m / shvaćana f / shvaćano n			shvaćani m / shvaćane f / shvaćana n
¹ For the masculine; agent of feminine or neuter gender would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and the auxiliary verb, respectively. ² Standard Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.

References

“shvaćati” in Hrvatski jezični portal