hodati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From hȏd (“walk, pace”). Cognates include Czech chodit and Russian ходить (xoditʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xǒːdati/
  • Hyphenation: ho‧da‧ti

Verb

hódati impf (Cyrillic spelling хо́дати)

  1. (intransitive) to walk, pace
  2. (intransitive) to stride
  3. (intransitive) to saunter, stroll, amble
  4. (intransitive, figurative, colloquial) to date (to be romantically involved with another)
  5. (intransitive, figurative, colloquial) run, work, function (operate or fulfill its purpose satisfactorily)

Conjugation

Conjugation of hodati
Infinitive: hodati Present verbal adverb: hódajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: hódānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present hodam hodaš hoda hodamo hodate hodaju
Future Future I hodat ću1
hodaću 		hodat ćeš1
hodaćeš 		hodat će1
hodaće 		hodat ćemo1
hodaćemo 		hodat ćete1
hodaćete 		hodat će1
hodaće
Future II bȕdēm hodao2 bȕdēš hodao2 bȕdē hodao2 bȕdēmo hodali2 bȕdēte hodali2 bȕdū hodali2
Past Perfect hodao sam2 hodao si2 hodao je2 hodali smo2 hodali ste2 hodali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam hodao2 bȉo si hodao2 bȉo je hodao2 bíli smo hodali2 bíli ste hodali2 bíli su hodali2
Imperfect hodah hodaše hodaše hodasmo hodaste hodahu
Conditional I hodao bih2 hodao bi2 hodao bi2 hodali bismo2 hodali biste2 hodali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih hodao2 bȉo bi hodao2 bȉo bi hodao2 bíli bismo hodali2 bíli biste hodali2 bíli bi hodali2
Imperative — hodaj — hodajmo hodajte —
Active past participle hodao m / hodala f / hodalo n hodali m / hodale f / hodala 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.

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Further reading

  • “hodati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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