imitirati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /imitǐːrati/
  • Hyphenation: i‧mi‧ti‧ra‧ti

Verb

imitírati impf (Cyrillic spelling имити́рати)

  1. (transitive) to imitate, impersonate

Conjugation

Conjugation of imitirati
infinitive imitirati
present verbal adverb imitírajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun imitírānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present imitiram imitiraš imitira imitiramo imitirate imitiraju
future future I imitirat ću1
imitiraću
imitirat ćeš1
imitiraćeš
imitirat će1
imitiraće
imitirat ćemo1
imitiraćemo
imitirat ćete1
imitiraćete
imitirat ćē1
imitiraće
future II bȕdēm imitirao2 bȕdēš imitirao2 bȕdē imitirao2 bȕdēmo imitirali2 bȕdēte imitirali2 bȕdū imitirali2
past perfect imitirao sam2 imitirao si2 imitirao je2 imitirali smo2 imitirali ste2 imitirali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam imitirao2 bȉo si imitirao2 bȉo je imitirao2 bíli smo imitirali2 bíli ste imitirali2 bíli su imitirali2
imperfect imitirah imitiraše imitiraše imitirasmo imitiraste imitirahu
conditional conditional I imitirao bih2 imitirao bi2 imitirao bi2 imitirali bismo2 imitirali biste2 imitirali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih imitirao2 bȉo bi imitirao2 bȉo bi imitirao2 bíli bismo imitirali2 bíli biste imitirali2 bíli bi imitirali2
imperative imitiraj imitirajmo imitirajte
active past participle imitirao m / imitirala f / imitiralo n imitirali m / imitirale f / imitirala n
passive past participle imitiran m / imitirana f / imitirano n imitirani m / imitirane f / imitirana 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.