odzivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /odzǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: od‧zi‧va‧ti

Verb

odzívati impf (Cyrillic spelling одзи́вати)

  1. (reflexive) to respond, answer (call, request or invitation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of odzivati
infinitive odzivati
present verbal adverb odzívajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun odzívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present odzivam odzivaš odziva odzivamo odzivate odzivaju
future future I odzivat ću1
odzivaću
odzivat ćeš1
odzivaćeš
odzivat će1
odzivaće
odzivat ćemo1
odzivaćemo
odzivat ćete1
odzivaćete
odzivat ćē1
odzivaće
future II bȕdēm odzivao2 bȕdēš odzivao2 bȕdē odzivao2 bȕdēmo odzivali2 bȕdēte odzivali2 bȕdū odzivali2
past perfect odzivao sam2 odzivao si2 odzivao je2 odzivali smo2 odzivali ste2 odzivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam odzivao2 bȉo si odzivao2 bȉo je odzivao2 bíli smo odzivali2 bíli ste odzivali2 bíli su odzivali2
imperfect odzivah odzivaše odzivaše odzivasmo odzivaste odzivahu
conditional conditional I odzivao bih2 odzivao bi2 odzivao bi2 odzivali bismo2 odzivali biste2 odzivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih odzivao2 bȉo bi odzivao2 bȉo bi odzivao2 bíli bismo odzivali2 bíli biste odzivali2 bíli bi odzivali2
imperative odzivaj odzivajmo odzivajte
active past participle odzivao m / odzivala f / odzivalo n odzivali m / odzivale f / odzivala 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

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