nazivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nazǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: na‧zi‧va‧ti

Verb

nazívati impf (Cyrillic spelling нази́вати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to name
  2. (transitive, reflexive) to call (person)
  3. (transitive, Croatia) to call somebody by telephone

Conjugation

Conjugation of nazivati
infinitive nazivati
present verbal adverb nazívajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun nazívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present nazivam nazivaš naziva nazivamo nazivate nazivaju
future future I nazivat ću1
nazivaću
nazivat ćeš1
nazivaćeš
nazivat će1
nazivaće
nazivat ćemo1
nazivaćemo
nazivat ćete1
nazivaćete
nazivat ćē1
nazivaće
future II bȕdēm nazivao2 bȕdēš nazivao2 bȕdē nazivao2 bȕdēmo nazivali2 bȕdēte nazivali2 bȕdū nazivali2
past perfect nazivao sam2 nazivao si2 nazivao je2 nazivali smo2 nazivali ste2 nazivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam nazivao2 bȉo si nazivao2 bȉo je nazivao2 bíli smo nazivali2 bíli ste nazivali2 bíli su nazivali2
imperfect nazivah nazivaše nazivaše nazivasmo nazivaste nazivahu
conditional conditional I nazivao bih2 nazivao bi2 nazivao bi2 nazivali bismo2 nazivali biste2 nazivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih nazivao2 bȉo bi nazivao2 bȉo bi nazivao2 bíli bismo nazivali2 bíli biste nazivali2 bíli bi nazivali2
imperative nazivaj nazivajmo nazivajte
active past participle nazivao m / nazivala f / nazivalo n nazivali m / nazivale f / nazivala 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

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