pokrštavati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pokrʃtǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧kr‧šta‧va‧ti

Verb

pokrštávati impf (Cyrillic spelling покршта́вати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to Christianize

Conjugation

Conjugation of pokrštavati
Infinitive: pokrštavati Present verbal adverb: pokrštávajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pokrštávānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pokrštavam pokrštavaš pokrštava pokrštavamo pokrštavate pokrštavaju
Future Future I pokrštavat ću1
pokrštavaću 		pokrštavat ćeš1
pokrštavaćeš 		pokrštavat će1
pokrštavaće 		pokrštavat ćemo1
pokrštavaćemo 		pokrštavat ćete1
pokrštavaćete 		pokrštavat će1
pokrštavaće
Future II bȕdēm pokrštavao2 bȕdēš pokrštavao2 bȕdē pokrštavao2 bȕdēmo pokrštavali2 bȕdēte pokrštavali2 bȕdū pokrštavali2
Past Perfect pokrštavao sam2 pokrštavao si2 pokrštavao je2 pokrštavali smo2 pokrštavali ste2 pokrštavali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pokrštavao2 bȉo si pokrštavao2 bȉo je pokrštavao2 bíli smo pokrštavali2 bíli ste pokrštavali2 bíli su pokrštavali2
Imperfect pokrštavah pokrštavaše pokrštavaše pokrštavasmo pokrštavaste pokrštavahu
Conditional I pokrštavao bih2 pokrštavao bi2 pokrštavao bi2 pokrštavali bismo2 pokrštavali biste2 pokrštavali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pokrštavao2 bȉo bi pokrštavao2 bȉo bi pokrštavao2 bíli bismo pokrštavali2 bíli biste pokrštavali2 bíli bi pokrštavali2
Imperative — pokrštavaj — pokrštavajmo pokrštavajte —
Active past participle pokrštavao m / pokrštavala f / pokrštavalo n pokrštavali m / pokrštavale f / pokrštavala n
Passive past participle pokrštavan m / pokrštavana f / pokrštavano n pokrštavani m / pokrštavane f / pokrštavana 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

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