djelovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dȅlovati (Ekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djêloʋati/
• Hyphenation: dje‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

djȅlovati impf (Cyrillic spelling дје̏ловати)

1. (intransitive) to work, function, operate
2. (intransitive) to act, react, take action (in response to something)
3. (intransitive) to seem, act as
4. (intransitive) to influence, affect, act on (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of djelovati

Infinitive: djelovati		Present verbal adverb: djȅlujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: djȅlovānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		djelujem	djeluješ	djeluje	djelujemo	djelujete	djeluju
Future	Future I	djelovat ću1 djelovaću	djelovat ćeš1 djelovaćeš	djelovat će1 djelovaće	djelovat ćemo1 djelovaćemo	djelovat ćete1 djelovaćete	djelovat će1 djelovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm djelovao2	bȕdēš djelovao2	bȕdē djelovao2	bȕdēmo djelovali2	bȕdēte djelovali2	bȕdū djelovali2
Past	Perfect	djelovao sam2	djelovao si2	djelovao je2	djelovali smo2	djelovali ste2	djelovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam djelovao2	bȉo si djelovao2	bȉo je djelovao2	bíli smo djelovali2	bíli ste djelovali2	bíli su djelovali2
	Imperfect	djelovah	djelovaše	djelovaše	djelovasmo	djelovaste	djelovahu
Conditional I		djelovao bih2	djelovao bi2	djelovao bi2	djelovali bismo2	djelovali biste2	djelovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih djelovao2	bȉo bi djelovao2	bȉo bi djelovao2	bíli bismo djelovali2	bíli biste djelovali2	bíli bi djelovali2
Imperative		—	djeluj	—	djelujmo	djelujte	—
Active past participle		djelovao m / djelovala f / djelovalo n			djelovali m / djelovale f / djelovala 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

• sùdjelovati