odgovarati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /odɡoʋǎːrati/
  • Hyphenation: od‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

odgovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling одгова́рати)

  1. (intransitive) to answer, reply
  2. (intransitive) to suit, fit
  3. (intransitive) to correspond, match, equate
  4. (intransitive) to be responsible for sth, answer for

Usage notes

Meanings suit, fit, match and correspond are calques of German entsprechen.

Conjugation

Conjugation of odgovarati
Infinitive: odgovarati Present verbal adverb: odgovárajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: odgovárānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present odgovaram odgovaraš odgovara odgovaramo odgovarate odgovaraju
Future Future I odgovarat ću1
odgovaraću 		odgovarat ćeš1
odgovaraćeš 		odgovarat će1
odgovaraće 		odgovarat ćemo1
odgovaraćemo 		odgovarat ćete1
odgovaraćete 		odgovarat će1
odgovaraće
Future II bȕdēm odgovarao2 bȕdēš odgovarao2 bȕdē odgovarao2 bȕdēmo odgovarali2 bȕdēte odgovarali2 bȕdū odgovarali2
Past Perfect odgovarao sam2 odgovarao si2 odgovarao je2 odgovarali smo2 odgovarali ste2 odgovarali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam odgovarao2 bȉo si odgovarao2 bȉo je odgovarao2 bíli smo odgovarali2 bíli ste odgovarali2 bíli su odgovarali2
Imperfect odgovarah odgovaraše odgovaraše odgovarasmo odgovaraste odgovarahu
Conditional I odgovarao bih2 odgovarao bi2 odgovarao bi2 odgovarali bismo2 odgovarali biste2 odgovarali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih odgovarao2 bȉo bi odgovarao2 bȉo bi odgovarao2 bíli bismo odgovarali2 bíli biste odgovarali2 bíli bi odgovarali2
Imperative — odgovaraj — odgovarajmo odgovarajte —
Active past participle odgovarao m / odgovarala f / odgovaralo n odgovarali m / odgovarale f / odgovarala n
Passive past participle odgovaran m / odgovarana f / odgovarano n odgovarani m / odgovarane f / odgovarana 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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