njegovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

nȅgovati (Ekavian)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɲêɡoʋati/
Hyphenation: nje‧go‧va‧ti

Verb

njȅgovati impf (Cyrillic spelling ње̏говати)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of *njegovati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		njegovati
present verbal adverb		njȅgujūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		njȅgovānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		njegujem	njeguješ	njeguje	njegujemo	njegujete	njeguju
future	future I	njegovat ću¹ njegovaću	njegovat ćeš¹ njegovaćeš	njegovat će¹ njegovaće	njegovat ćemo¹ njegovaćemo	njegovat ćete¹ njegovaćete	njegovat ćē¹ njegovaće
future	future II	bȕdēm njegovao²	bȕdēš njegovao²	bȕdē njegovao²	bȕdēmo njegovali²	bȕdēte njegovali²	bȕdū njegovali²
past	perfect	njegovao sam²	njegovao si²	njegovao je²	njegovali smo²	njegovali ste²	njegovali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam njegovao²	bȉo si njegovao²	bȉo je njegovao²	bíli smo njegovali²	bíli ste njegovali²	bíli su njegovali²
	imperfect	njegovah	njegovaše	njegovaše	njegovasmo	njegovaste	njegovahu
conditional	conditional I	njegovao bih²	njegovao bi²	njegovao bi²	njegovali bismo²	njegovali biste²	njegovali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih njegovao²	bȉo bi njegovao²	bȉo bi njegovao²	bíli bismo njegovali²	bíli biste njegovali²	bíli bi njegovali²
imperative		—	njeguj	—	njegujmo	njegujte	—
active past participle		njegovao m / njegovala f / njegovalo n			njegovali m / njegovale f / njegovala n
passive past participle		njegovan m / njegovana f / njegovano n			njegovani m / njegovane f / njegovana 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.