kvariti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kvariti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʋǎːriti/
• Hyphenation: kva‧ri‧ti

Verb

kváriti impf (Cyrillic spelling ква́рити)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to damage, ruin, spoil
2. (transitive, reflexive) to pervert, corrupt

Conjugation

Conjugation of kvariti

Infinitive: kvariti		Present verbal adverb: kvárēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kvárēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		kvarim	kvariš	kvari	kvarimo	kvarite	kvare
Future	Future I	kvarit ću1 kvariću	kvarit ćeš1 kvarićeš	kvarit će1 kvariće	kvarit ćemo1 kvarićemo	kvarit ćete1 kvarićete	kvarit će1 kvariće
	Future II	bȕdēm kvario2	bȕdēš kvario2	bȕdē kvario2	bȕdēmo kvarili2	bȕdēte kvarili2	bȕdū kvarili2
Past	Perfect	kvario sam2	kvario si2	kvario je2	kvarili smo2	kvarili ste2	kvarili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam kvario2	bȉo si kvario2	bȉo je kvario2	bíli smo kvarili2	bíli ste kvarili2	bíli su kvarili2
	Imperfect	kvarah	kvaraše	kvaraše	kvarasmo	kvaraste	kvarahu
Conditional I		kvario bih2	kvario bi2	kvario bi2	kvarili bismo2	kvarili biste2	kvarili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih kvario2	bȉo bi kvario2	bȉo bi kvario2	bíli bismo kvarili2	bíli biste kvarili2	bíli bi kvarili2
Imperative		—	kvari	—	kvarimo	kvarite	—
Active past participle		kvario m / kvarila f / kvarilo n			kvarili m / kvarile f / kvarila n
Passive past participle		kvaren m / kvarena f / kvareno n			kvareni m / kvarene f / kvarena 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.

Derived terms

• iskváriti
• pokváriti

Further reading

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