zijevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• zévati (Ekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zěvati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zjěːʋati/
• Hyphenation: zije‧va‧ti

Verb

zijévati impf (Cyrillic spelling зије́вати)

1. (intransitive) to yawn

Conjugation

Conjugation of zijevati

Infinitive: zijevati		Present verbal adverb: zijévajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: zijévānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		zijevam	zijevaš	zijeva	zijevamo	zijevate	zijevaju
Future	Future I	zijevat ću1 zijevaću	zijevat ćeš1 zijevaćeš	zijevat će1 zijevaće	zijevat ćemo1 zijevaćemo	zijevat ćete1 zijevaćete	zijevat će1 zijevaće
	Future II	bȕdēm zijevao2	bȕdēš zijevao2	bȕdē zijevao2	bȕdēmo zijevali2	bȕdēte zijevali2	bȕdū zijevali2
Past	Perfect	zijevao sam2	zijevao si2	zijevao je2	zijevali smo2	zijevali ste2	zijevali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam zijevao2	bȉo si zijevao2	bȉo je zijevao2	bíli smo zijevali2	bíli ste zijevali2	bíli su zijevali2
	Imperfect	zijevah	zijevaše	zijevaše	zijevasmo	zijevaste	zijevahu
Conditional I		zijevao bih2	zijevao bi2	zijevao bi2	zijevali bismo2	zijevali biste2	zijevali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih zijevao2	bȉo bi zijevao2	bȉo bi zijevao2	bíli bismo zijevali2	bíli biste zijevali2	bíli bi zijevali2
Imperative		—	zijevaj	—	zijevajmo	zijevajte	—
Active past participle		zijevao m / zijevala f / zijevalo n			zijevali m / zijevale f / zijevala 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

• zijévnuti pf

Further reading

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