ispričavati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /isprit͡ʃǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: is‧pri‧ča‧va‧ti

Verb

ispričávati impf (Cyrillic spelling исприча́вати)

  1. (transitive) to narrate, tell
  2. (reflexive) to have a good talk
  3. (transitive) (Croatian) to excuse, justify
  4. (reflexive) (Croatian) to apologize

Conjugation

Conjugation of ispričavati
Infinitive: ispričavati Present verbal adverb: ispričávajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: ispričávānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present ispričavam ispričavaš ispričava ispričavamo ispričavate ispričavaju
Future Future I ispričavat ću1
ispričavaću 		ispričavat ćeš1
ispričavaćeš 		ispričavat će1
ispričavaće 		ispričavat ćemo1
ispričavaćemo 		ispričavat ćete1
ispričavaćete 		ispričavat će1
ispričavaće
Future II bȕdēm ispričavao2 bȕdēš ispričavao2 bȕdē ispričavao2 bȕdēmo ispričavali2 bȕdēte ispričavali2 bȕdū ispričavali2
Past Perfect ispričavao sam2 ispričavao si2 ispričavao je2 ispričavali smo2 ispričavali ste2 ispričavali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam ispričavao2 bȉo si ispričavao2 bȉo je ispričavao2 bíli smo ispričavali2 bíli ste ispričavali2 bíli su ispričavali2
Imperfect ispričavah ispričavaše ispričavaše ispričavasmo ispričavaste ispričavahu
Conditional I ispričavao bih2 ispričavao bi2 ispričavao bi2 ispričavali bismo2 ispričavali biste2 ispričavali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih ispričavao2 bȉo bi ispričavao2 bȉo bi ispričavao2 bíli bismo ispričavali2 bíli biste ispričavali2 bíli bi ispričavali2
Imperative — ispričavaj — ispričavajmo ispričavajte —
Active past participle ispričavao m / ispričavala f / ispričavalo n ispričavali m / ispričavale f / ispričavala 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.

Further reading

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