delovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• djȅlovati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From dȅlati +‎ -ovati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dêloʋati/
• Hyphenation: de‧lo‧va‧ti

Verb

dȅlovati impf (Cyrillic spelling де̏ловати)

1. (intransitive) to work, perform, function, operate
2. (intransitive) to seem, act as if
3. (intransitive) to influence, affect, act on (+ na (“on”))

Conjugation

Conjugation of delovati

Infinitive: delovati		Present verbal adverb: dȅlujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dȅlovānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		delujem	deluješ	deluje	delujemo	delujete	deluju
Future	Future I	delovat ću1 delovaću	delovat ćeš1 delovaćeš	delovat će1 delovaće	delovat ćemo1 delovaćemo	delovat ćete1 delovaćete	delovat će1 delovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm delovao2	bȕdēš delovao2	bȕdē delovao2	bȕdēmo delovali2	bȕdēte delovali2	bȕdū delovali2
Past	Perfect	delovao sam2	delovao si2	delovao je2	delovali smo2	delovali ste2	delovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam delovao2	bȉo si delovao2	bȉo je delovao2	bíli smo delovali2	bíli ste delovali2	bíli su delovali2
	Imperfect	delovah	delovaše	delovaše	delovasmo	delovaste	delovahu
Conditional I		delovao bih2	delovao bi2	delovao bi2	delovali bismo2	delovali biste2	delovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih delovao2	bȉo bi delovao2	bȉo bi delovao2	bíli bismo delovali2	bíli biste delovali2	bíli bi delovali2
Imperative		—	deluj	—	delujmo	delujte	—
Active past participle		delovao m / delovala f / delovalo n			delovali m / delovale f / delovala 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

• sùdelovati