posjedovati

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǒːsjedoʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pos‧je‧do‧va‧ti

Verb

pósjedovati impf (Cyrillic spelling по́сједовати)

  1. (transitive) to own, possess
  2. (transitive) to have

Conjugation

Conjugation of posjedovati
Infinitive: posjedovati Present verbal adverb: pósjedujūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pósjedovānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present posjedujem posjeduješ posjeduje posjedujemo posjedujete posjeduju
Future Future I posjedovat ću1
posjedovaću 		posjedovat ćeš1
posjedovaćeš 		posjedovat će1
posjedovaće 		posjedovat ćemo1
posjedovaćemo 		posjedovat ćete1
posjedovaćete 		posjedovat će1
posjedovaće
Future II bȕdēm posjedovao2 bȕdēš posjedovao2 bȕdē posjedovao2 bȕdēmo posjedovali2 bȕdēte posjedovali2 bȕdū posjedovali2
Past Perfect posjedovao sam2 posjedovao si2 posjedovao je2 posjedovali smo2 posjedovali ste2 posjedovali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam posjedovao2 bȉo si posjedovao2 bȉo je posjedovao2 bíli smo posjedovali2 bíli ste posjedovali2 bíli su posjedovali2
Imperfect posjedovah posjedovaše posjedovaše posjedovasmo posjedovaste posjedovahu
Conditional I posjedovao bih2 posjedovao bi2 posjedovao bi2 posjedovali bismo2 posjedovali biste2 posjedovali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih posjedovao2 bȉo bi posjedovao2 bȉo bi posjedovao2 bíli bismo posjedovali2 bíli biste posjedovali2 bíli bi posjedovali2
Imperative — posjeduj — posjedujmo posjedujte —
Active past participle posjedovao m / posjedovala f / posjedovalo n posjedovali m / posjedovale f / posjedovala 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

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