negovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

njȅgovati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nêɡoʋati/
Hyphenation: ne‧go‧va‧ti

Verb

nȅgovati impf (Cyrillic spelling не̏говати)

(transitive) to nurse, tend to, care for
(transitive) to cherish, foster (tradition, culture, friendship etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of *negovati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		negovati
present verbal adverb		nȅgujūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		nȅgovānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		negujem	neguješ	neguje	negujemo	negujete	neguju
future	future I	negovat ću¹ negovaću	negovat ćeš¹ negovaćeš	negovat će¹ negovaće	negovat ćemo¹ negovaćemo	negovat ćete¹ negovaćete	negovat ćē¹ negovaće
future	future II	bȕdēm negovao²	bȕdēš negovao²	bȕdē negovao²	bȕdēmo negovali²	bȕdēte negovali²	bȕdū negovali²
past	perfect	negovao sam²	negovao si²	negovao je²	negovali smo²	negovali ste²	negovali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam negovao²	bȉo si negovao²	bȉo je negovao²	bíli smo negovali²	bíli ste negovali²	bíli su negovali²
	imperfect	negovah	negovaše	negovaše	negovasmo	negovaste	negovahu
conditional	conditional I	negovao bih²	negovao bi²	negovao bi²	negovali bismo²	negovali biste²	negovali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih negovao²	bȉo bi negovao²	bȉo bi negovao²	bíli bismo negovali²	bíli biste negovali²	bíli bi negovali²
imperative		—	neguj	—	negujmo	negujte	—
active past participle		negovao m / negovala f / negovalo n			negovali m / negovale f / negovala n
passive past participle		negovan m / negovana f / negovano n			negovani m / negovane f / negovana 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.