svedočiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• svjedòčiti (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʋedǒt͡ʃiti/
• Hyphenation: sve‧do‧či‧ti

Verb

svedòčiti impf (Cyrillic spelling сведо̀чити)

1. (intransitive) to witness, testify
2. (intransitive) to bear witness to, give evidence, prove

Conjugation

Conjugation of svedočiti

Infinitive: svedočiti		Present verbal adverb: svedòčēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: svedòčēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		svedočim	svedočiš	svedoči	svedočimo	svedočite	svedoče
Future	Future I	svedočit ću1 svedočiću	svedočit ćeš1 svedočićeš	svedočit će1 svedočiće	svedočit ćemo1 svedočićemo	svedočit ćete1 svedočićete	svedočit će1 svedočiće
	Future II	bȕdēm svedočio2	bȕdēš svedočio2	bȕdē svedočio2	bȕdēmo svedočili2	bȕdēte svedočili2	bȕdū svedočili2
Past	Perfect	svedočio sam2	svedočio si2	svedočio je2	svedočili smo2	svedočili ste2	svedočili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam svedočio2	bȉo si svedočio2	bȉo je svedočio2	bíli smo svedočili2	bíli ste svedočili2	bíli su svedočili2
	Imperfect	svedočah	svedočaše	svedočaše	svedočasmo	svedočaste	svedočahu
Conditional I		svedočio bih2	svedočio bi2	svedočio bi2	svedočili bismo2	svedočili biste2	svedočili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih svedočio2	bȉo bi svedočio2	bȉo bi svedočio2	bíli bismo svedočili2	bíli biste svedočili2	bíli bi svedočili2
Imperative		—	svedoči	—	svedočimo	svedočite	—
Active past participle		svedočio m / svedočila f / svedočilo n			svedočili m / svedočile f / svedočila n
Passive past participle		svedočen m / svedočena f / svedočeno n			svedočeni m / svedočene f / svedočena 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

• posvedòčiti
• zasvedòčiti

Related terms

• svèdok