pozivati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pozǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧zi‧va‧ti

Verb

pozívati impf (Cyrillic spelling пози́вати)

  1. (transitive) to call (to come closer)
  2. (transitive) to invite (for a dinner etc.)
    pozvati na večeru
    invite for a dinner
  3. (transitive) to summon (to a court, ghost etc.)
  4. (reflexive) to refer, relate, allude

Conjugation

Conjugation of pozivati
Infinitive: pozivati Present verbal adverb: pozívajūći / pòzīvljūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pozívānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pozivljem / pozivam pozivlješ / pozivaš pozivlje / poziva pozivljemo / pozivamo pozivljete / pozivate pozivlju / pozivaju
Future Future I pozivat ću1
pozivaću 		pozivat ćeš1
pozivaćeš 		pozivat će1
pozivaće 		pozivat ćemo1
pozivaćemo 		pozivat ćete1
pozivaćete 		pozivat će1
pozivaće
Future II bȕdēm pozivao2 bȕdēš pozivao2 bȕdē pozivao2 bȕdēmo pozivali2 bȕdēte pozivali2 bȕdū pozivali2
Past Perfect pozivao sam2 pozivao si2 pozivao je2 pozivali smo2 pozivali ste2 pozivali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pozivao2 bȉo si pozivao2 bȉo je pozivao2 bíli smo pozivali2 bíli ste pozivali2 bíli su pozivali2
Imperfect pozivah pozivaše pozivaše pozivasmo pozivaste pozivahu
Conditional I pozivao bih2 pozivao bi2 pozivao bi2 pozivali bismo2 pozivali biste2 pozivali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pozivao2 bȉo bi pozivao2 bȉo bi pozivao2 bíli bismo pozivali2 bíli biste pozivali2 bíli bi pozivali2
Imperative — pozivlji / pozivaj — pozivljimo / pozivajmo pozivljite / pozivajte —
Active past participle pozivao m / pozivala f / pozivalo n pozivali m / pozivale f / pozivala n
Passive past participle pozivan m / pozivana f / pozivano n pozivani m / pozivane f / pozivana 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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Further reading

  • “pozivati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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