oklevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oklěːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: o‧kle‧va‧ti

Verb

oklévati impf (Cyrillic spelling окле́вати)

  1. to hesitate, vacillate

Conjugation

Conjugation of oklevati
infinitive oklevati
present verbal adverb oklévajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun oklévānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present oklevam oklevaš okleva oklevamo oklevate oklevaju
future future I oklevat ću1
oklevaću
oklevat ćeš1
oklevaćeš
oklevat će1
oklevaće
oklevat ćemo1
oklevaćemo
oklevat ćete1
oklevaćete
oklevat ćē1
oklevaće
future II bȕdēm oklevao2 bȕdēš oklevao2 bȕdē oklevao2 bȕdēmo oklevali2 bȕdēte oklevali2 bȕdū oklevali2
past perfect oklevao sam2 oklevao si2 oklevao je2 oklevali smo2 oklevali ste2 oklevali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam oklevao2 bȉo si oklevao2 bȉo je oklevao2 bíli smo oklevali2 bíli ste oklevali2 bíli su oklevali2
imperfect oklevah oklevaše oklevaše oklevasmo oklevaste oklevahu
conditional conditional I oklevao bih2 oklevao bi2 oklevao bi2 oklevali bismo2 oklevali biste2 oklevali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih oklevao2 bȉo bi oklevao2 bȉo bi oklevao2 bíli bismo oklevali2 bíli biste oklevali2 bíli bi oklevali2
imperative oklevaj oklevajmo oklevajte
active past participle oklevao m / oklevala f / oklevalo n oklevali m / oklevale f / oklevala 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.