dočekivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dot͡ʃekǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: do‧če‧ki‧va‧ti

Verb

dočekívati impf (Cyrillic spelling дочеки́вати)

  1. (transitive) to welcome, receive, greet
  2. (transitive) to live long enough to see that what one waited for happen or came true
  3. (reflexive) to land, fall safely (on one's feet, of a person or animal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dočekivati
infinitive dočekivati
present verbal adverb dočèkujūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun dočekívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present dočekujem dočekuješ dočekuje dočekujemo dočekujete dočekuju
future future I dočekivat ću1
dočekivaću
dočekivat ćeš1
dočekivaćeš
dočekivat će1
dočekivaće
dočekivat ćemo1
dočekivaćemo
dočekivat ćete1
dočekivaćete
dočekivat ćē1
dočekivaće
future II bȕdēm dočekivao2 bȕdēš dočekivao2 bȕdē dočekivao2 bȕdēmo dočekivali2 bȕdēte dočekivali2 bȕdū dočekivali2
past perfect dočekivao sam2 dočekivao si2 dočekivao je2 dočekivali smo2 dočekivali ste2 dočekivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam dočekivao2 bȉo si dočekivao2 bȉo je dočekivao2 bíli smo dočekivali2 bíli ste dočekivali2 bíli su dočekivali2
imperfect dočekivah dočekivaše dočekivaše dočekivasmo dočekivaste dočekivahu
conditional conditional I dočekivao bih2 dočekivao bi2 dočekivao bi2 dočekivali bismo2 dočekivali biste2 dočekivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih dočekivao2 bȉo bi dočekivao2 bȉo bi dočekivao2 bíli bismo dočekivali2 bíli biste dočekivali2 bíli bi dočekivali2
imperative dočekuj dočekujmo dočekujte
active past participle dočekivao m / dočekivala f / dočekivalo n dočekivali m / dočekivale f / dočekivala n
passive past participle dočekivan m / dočekivana f / dočekivano n dočekivani m / dočekivane f / dočekivana 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

  • dočekivati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025