rovati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rǒʋati/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧va‧ti

Verb

ròvati impf (Cyrillic spelling ро̀вати)

  1. (transitive) to root (dig up with the snout)
  2. (transitive) to rummage, search
  3. (intransitive) to undermine, plot, scheme

Conjugation

Conjugation of rovati
Infinitive: rovati Present verbal adverb: rȕjūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: ròvānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present rujem ruješ ruje rujemo rujete ruju
Future Future I rovat ću1
rovaću 		rovat ćeš1
rovaćeš 		rovat će1
rovaće 		rovat ćemo1
rovaćemo 		rovat ćete1
rovaćete 		rovat će1
rovaće
Future II bȕdēm rovao2 bȕdēš rovao2 bȕdē rovao2 bȕdēmo rovali2 bȕdēte rovali2 bȕdū rovali2
Past Perfect rovao sam2 rovao si2 rovao je2 rovali smo2 rovali ste2 rovali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam rovao2 bȉo si rovao2 bȉo je rovao2 bíli smo rovali2 bíli ste rovali2 bíli su rovali2
Imperfect rovah rovaše rovaše rovasmo rovaste rovahu
Conditional I rovao bih2 rovao bi2 rovao bi2 rovali bismo2 rovali biste2 rovali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih rovao2 bȉo bi rovao2 bȉo bi rovao2 bíli bismo rovali2 bíli biste rovali2 bíli bi rovali2
Imperative — ruj — rujmo rujte —
Active past participle rovao m / rovala f / rovalo n rovali m / rovale f / rovala n
Passive past participle rovan m / rovana f / rovano n rovani m / rovane f / rovana 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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