dokazati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dokazati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dokǎːzati/
  • Hyphenation: do‧ka‧za‧ti

Verb

dokázati pf (Cyrillic spelling дока́зати)

  1. (ambitransitive) to prove
  2. (reflexive) to prove oneself, establish oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of dokazati
infinitive dokazati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb dokázāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present dokažem dokažeš dokaže dokažemo dokažete dokažu
future future I dokazat ću1
dokazaću
dokazat ćeš1
dokazaćeš
dokazat će1
dokazaće
dokazat ćemo1
dokazaćemo
dokazat ćete1
dokazaćete
dokazat ćē1
dokazaće
future II bȕdēm dokazao2 bȕdēš dokazao2 bȕdē dokazao2 bȕdēmo dokazali2 bȕdēte dokazali2 bȕdū dokazali2
past perfect dokazao sam2 dokazao si2 dokazao je2 dokazali smo2 dokazali ste2 dokazali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam dokazao2 bȉo si dokazao2 bȉo je dokazao2 bíli smo dokazali2 bíli ste dokazali2 bíli su dokazali2
aorist dokazah dokaza dokaza dokazasmo dokazaste dokazaše
conditional conditional I dokazao bih2 dokazao bi2 dokazao bi2 dokazali bismo2 dokazali biste2 dokazali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih dokazao2 bȉo bi dokazao2 bȉo bi dokazao2 bíli bismo dokazali2 bíli biste dokazali2 bíli bi dokazali2
imperative dokaži dokažimo dokažite
active past participle dokazao m / dokazala f / dokazalo n dokazali m / dokazale f / dokazala n
passive past participle dokazan m / dokazana f / dokazano n dokazani m / dokazane f / dokazana 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

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