opisivati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /opisǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: o‧pi‧si‧va‧ti

Verb

opisívati impf (Cyrillic spelling описи́вати)

  1. (transitive) to describe
  2. (transitive, mathematics) to circumscribe
  3. (transitive) to trace, describe (of a trajectory and similar)

Conjugation

Conjugation of opisivati
Infinitive: opisivati Present verbal adverb: opìsujūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: opisívānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present opisujem opisuješ opisuje opisujemo opisujete opisuju
Future Future I opisivat ću1
opisivaću 		opisivat ćeš1
opisivaćeš 		opisivat će1
opisivaće 		opisivat ćemo1
opisivaćemo 		opisivat ćete1
opisivaćete 		opisivat će1
opisivaće
Future II bȕdēm opisivao2 bȕdēš opisivao2 bȕdē opisivao2 bȕdēmo opisivali2 bȕdēte opisivali2 bȕdū opisivali2
Past Perfect opisivao sam2 opisivao si2 opisivao je2 opisivali smo2 opisivali ste2 opisivali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam opisivao2 bȉo si opisivao2 bȉo je opisivao2 bíli smo opisivali2 bíli ste opisivali2 bíli su opisivali2
Imperfect opisivah opisivaše opisivaše opisivasmo opisivaste opisivahu
Conditional I opisivao bih2 opisivao bi2 opisivao bi2 opisivali bismo2 opisivali biste2 opisivali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih opisivao2 bȉo bi opisivao2 bȉo bi opisivao2 bíli bismo opisivali2 bíli biste opisivali2 bíli bi opisivali2
Imperative — opisuj — opisujmo opisujte —
Active past participle opisivao m / opisivala f / opisivalo n opisivali m / opisivale f / opisivala n
Passive past participle opisivan m / opisivana f / opisivano n opisivani m / opisivane f / opisivana 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

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