bivovati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bȉti (“to be”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biʋǒʋati/
  • Hyphenation: bi‧vo‧va‧ti

Verb

bivòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling биво̀вати)

  1. (intransitive) to be, exist

Conjugation

Conjugation of bivovati
Infinitive: bivovati Present verbal adverb: bìvujūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: bivòvānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present bivujem bivuješ bivuje bivujemo bivujete bivuju
Future Future I bivovat ću1
bivovaću 		bivovat ćeš1
bivovaćeš 		bivovat će1
bivovaće 		bivovat ćemo1
bivovaćemo 		bivovat ćete1
bivovaćete 		bivovat će1
bivovaće
Future II bȕdēm bivovao2 bȕdēš bivovao2 bȕdē bivovao2 bȕdēmo bivovali2 bȕdēte bivovali2 bȕdū bivovali2
Past Perfect bivovao sam2 bivovao si2 bivovao je2 bivovali smo2 bivovali ste2 bivovali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam bivovao2 bȉo si bivovao2 bȉo je bivovao2 bíli smo bivovali2 bíli ste bivovali2 bíli su bivovali2
Imperfect bivovah bivovaše bivovaše bivovasmo bivovaste bivovahu
Conditional I bivovao bih2 bivovao bi2 bivovao bi2 bivovali bismo2 bivovali biste2 bivovali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih bivovao2 bȉo bi bivovao2 bȉo bi bivovao2 bíli bismo bivovali2 bíli biste bivovali2 bíli bi bivovali2
Imperative — bivuj — bivujmo bivujte —
Active past participle bivovao m / bivovala f / bivovalo n bivovali m / bivovale f / bivovala 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.

References

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