ispitivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ispitǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: i‧spi‧ti‧va‧ti

Verb

ispitívati impf (Cyrillic spelling испити́вати)

  1. (transitive) to interrogate, question
  2. (transitive) to examine, test
  3. (transitive) to investigate, probe, check, inquire into

Conjugation

Conjugation of ispitivati
infinitive ispitivati
present verbal adverb ispitujūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun ispitívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present ispitujem ispituješ ispituje ispitujemo ispitujete ispituju
future future I ispitivat ću1
ispitivaću
ispitivat ćeš1
ispitivaćeš
ispitivat će1
ispitivaće
ispitivat ćemo1
ispitivaćemo
ispitivat ćete1
ispitivaćete
ispitivat ćē1
ispitivaće
future II bȕdēm ispitivao2 bȕdēš ispitivao2 bȕdē ispitivao2 bȕdēmo ispitivali2 bȕdēte ispitivali2 bȕdū ispitivali2
past perfect ispitivao sam2 ispitivao si2 ispitivao je2 ispitivali smo2 ispitivali ste2 ispitivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam ispitivao2 bȉo si ispitivao2 bȉo je ispitivao2 bíli smo ispitivali2 bíli ste ispitivali2 bíli su ispitivali2
imperfect ispitivah ispitivaše ispitivaše ispitivasmo ispitivaste ispitivahu
conditional conditional I ispitivao bih2 ispitivao bi2 ispitivao bi2 ispitivali bismo2 ispitivali biste2 ispitivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih ispitivao2 bȉo bi ispitivao2 bȉo bi ispitivao2 bíli bismo ispitivali2 bíli biste ispitivali2 bíli bi ispitivali2
imperative ispituj ispitujmo ispitujte
active past participle ispitivao m / ispitivala f / ispitivalo n ispitivali m / ispitivale f / ispitivala n
passive past participle ispitivan m / ispitivana f / ispitivano n ispitivani m / ispitivane f / ispitivana 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

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