odmotavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /odmotǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: od‧mo‧ta‧va‧ti

Verb

odmotávati impf (Cyrillic spelling одмота́вати)

  1. (transitive) to unwrap, unwind, uncoil

Conjugation

Conjugation of odmotavati
infinitive odmotavati
present verbal adverb odmotávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun odmotávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present odmotavam odmotavaš odmotava odmotavamo odmotavate odmotavaju
future future I odmotavat ću1
odmotavaću
odmotavat ćeš1
odmotavaćeš
odmotavat će1
odmotavaće
odmotavat ćemo1
odmotavaćemo
odmotavat ćete1
odmotavaćete
odmotavat ćē1
odmotavaće
future II bȕdēm odmotavao2 bȕdēš odmotavao2 bȕdē odmotavao2 bȕdēmo odmotavali2 bȕdēte odmotavali2 bȕdū odmotavali2
past perfect odmotavao sam2 odmotavao si2 odmotavao je2 odmotavali smo2 odmotavali ste2 odmotavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam odmotavao2 bȉo si odmotavao2 bȉo je odmotavao2 bíli smo odmotavali2 bíli ste odmotavali2 bíli su odmotavali2
imperfect odmotavah odmotavaše odmotavaše odmotavasmo odmotavaste odmotavahu
conditional conditional I odmotavao bih2 odmotavao bi2 odmotavao bi2 odmotavali bismo2 odmotavali biste2 odmotavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih odmotavao2 bȉo bi odmotavao2 bȉo bi odmotavao2 bíli bismo odmotavali2 bíli biste odmotavali2 bíli bi odmotavali2
imperative odmotavaj odmotavajmo odmotavajte
active past participle odmotavao m / odmotavala f / odmotavalo n odmotavali m / odmotavale f / odmotavala n
passive past participle odmotavan m / odmotavana f / odmotavano n odmotavani m / odmotavane f / odmotavana 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

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