nagovarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naɡoʋǎːrati/
  • Hyphenation: na‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

nagovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling нагова́рати)

  1. (transitive) to persuade, talk into
  2. (transitive) to convince

Conjugation

Conjugation of nagovarati
infinitive nagovarati
present verbal adverb nagovárajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun nagovárānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present nagovaram nagovaraš nagovara nagovaramo nagovarate nagovaraju
future future I nagovarat ću1
nagovaraću
nagovarat ćeš1
nagovaraćeš
nagovarat će1
nagovaraće
nagovarat ćemo1
nagovaraćemo
nagovarat ćete1
nagovaraćete
nagovarat ćē1
nagovaraće
future II bȕdēm nagovarao2 bȕdēš nagovarao2 bȕdē nagovarao2 bȕdēmo nagovarali2 bȕdēte nagovarali2 bȕdū nagovarali2
past perfect nagovarao sam2 nagovarao si2 nagovarao je2 nagovarali smo2 nagovarali ste2 nagovarali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam nagovarao2 bȉo si nagovarao2 bȉo je nagovarao2 bíli smo nagovarali2 bíli ste nagovarali2 bíli su nagovarali2
imperfect nagovarah nagovaraše nagovaraše nagovarasmo nagovaraste nagovarahu
conditional conditional I nagovarao bih2 nagovarao bi2 nagovarao bi2 nagovarali bismo2 nagovarali biste2 nagovarali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih nagovarao2 bȉo bi nagovarao2 bȉo bi nagovarao2 bíli bismo nagovarali2 bíli biste nagovarali2 bíli bi nagovarali2
imperative nagovaraj nagovarajmo nagovarajte
active past participle nagovarao m / nagovarala f / nagovaralo n nagovarali m / nagovarale f / nagovarala n
passive past participle nagovaran m / nagovarana f / nagovarano n nagovarani m / nagovarane f / nagovarana 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

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