cvasti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʋâsti/
• Hyphenation: cva‧sti

Verb

cvȁsti impf (Cyrillic spelling цва̏сти)

1. (intransitive, Croatia) to bloom, blossom, thrive

   Ove godine visibabe cvatu ranije nego obično. ― This year the snowdrops are blooming earlier than usual.

2. (intransitive, figuratively, Croatia) to flourish, thrive, bloom

   Zapošljavaju još ljudi jer posao cvate. ― They are hiring more people because the business is thriving.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cvasti

Infinitive: cvasti		Present verbal adverb: cvàtūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: cvàtnja
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		cvatem	cvateš	cvate	cvatemo	cvatete	cvatu
Future	Future I	cvast ću1 cvašću	cvast ćeš1 cvašćeš	cvast će1 cvašće	cvast ćemo1 cvašćemo	cvast ćete1 cvašćete	cvast će1 cvašće
	Future II	bȕdēm cvao2	bȕdēš cvao2	bȕdē cvao2	bȕdēmo cvali2	bȕdēte cvali2	bȕdū cvali2
Past	Perfect	cvao sam2	cvao si2	cvao je2	cvali smo2	cvali ste2	cvali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam cvao2	bȉo si cvao2	bȉo je cvao2	bíli smo cvali2	bíli ste cvali2	bíli su cvali2
	Imperfect	cvatijah	cvatijaše	cvatijaše	cvatijasmo	cvatijaste	cvatijahu
Conditional I		cvao bih2	cvao bi2	cvao bi2	cvali bismo2	cvali biste2	cvali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih cvao2	bȉo bi cvao2	bȉo bi cvao2	bíli bismo cvali2	bíli biste cvali2	bíli bi cvali2
Imperative		—	cvati	—	cvatimo	cvatite	—
Active past participle		cvao m / cvala f / cvalo n			cvali m / cvale f / cvala 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.

Synonyms

• cvjètati / cvètati

Related terms

• cvijȇt / cvȇt