usisavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /usisǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: u‧si‧sa‧va‧ti

Verb

usisávati impf (Cyrillic spelling усиса́вати)

1. (transitive) to suck in, absorb
2. (transitive, intransitive) to vacuum

Conjugation

Conjugation of usisavati

Infinitive: usisavati		Present verbal adverb: usisávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: usisávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		usisavam	usisavaš	usisava	usisavamo	usisavate	usisavaju
Future	Future I	usisavat ću1 usisavaću	usisavat ćeš1 usisavaćeš	usisavat će1 usisavaće	usisavat ćemo1 usisavaćemo	usisavat ćete1 usisavaćete	usisavat će1 usisavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm usisavao2	bȕdēš usisavao2	bȕdē usisavao2	bȕdēmo usisavali2	bȕdēte usisavali2	bȕdū usisavali2
Past	Perfect	usisavao sam2	usisavao si2	usisavao je2	usisavali smo2	usisavali ste2	usisavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam usisavao2	bȉo si usisavao2	bȉo je usisavao2	bíli smo usisavali2	bíli ste usisavali2	bíli su usisavali2
	Imperfect	usisavah	usisavaše	usisavaše	usisavasmo	usisavaste	usisavahu
Conditional I		usisavao bih2	usisavao bi2	usisavao bi2	usisavali bismo2	usisavali biste2	usisavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih usisavao2	bȉo bi usisavao2	bȉo bi usisavao2	bíli bismo usisavali2	bíli biste usisavali2	bíli bi usisavali2
Imperative		—	usisavaj	—	usisavajmo	usisavajte	—
Active past participle		usisavao m / usisavala f / usisavalo n			usisavali m / usisavale f / usisavala n
Passive past participle		usisavan m / usisavana f / usisavano n			usisavani m / usisavane f / usisavana 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

• ùsisati pf

Further reading

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