oklijevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /okljěːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: o‧klije‧va‧ti

Verb

oklijévati impf (Cyrillic spelling оклије́вати)

  1. to hesitate, vacillate

Conjugation

Conjugation of oklijevati
infinitive oklijevati
present verbal adverb oklijévajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun oklijévānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present oklijevam oklijevaš oklijeva oklijevamo oklijevate oklijevaju
future future I oklijevat ću1
oklijevaću
oklijevat ćeš1
oklijevaćeš
oklijevat će1
oklijevaće
oklijevat ćemo1
oklijevaćemo
oklijevat ćete1
oklijevaćete
oklijevat ćē1
oklijevaće
future II bȕdēm oklijevao2 bȕdēš oklijevao2 bȕdē oklijevao2 bȕdēmo oklijevali2 bȕdēte oklijevali2 bȕdū oklijevali2
past perfect oklijevao sam2 oklijevao si2 oklijevao je2 oklijevali smo2 oklijevali ste2 oklijevali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam oklijevao2 bȉo si oklijevao2 bȉo je oklijevao2 bíli smo oklijevali2 bíli ste oklijevali2 bíli su oklijevali2
imperfect oklijevah oklijevaše oklijevaše oklijevasmo oklijevaste oklijevahu
conditional conditional I oklijevao bih2 oklijevao bi2 oklijevao bi2 oklijevali bismo2 oklijevali biste2 oklijevali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih oklijevao2 bȉo bi oklijevao2 bȉo bi oklijevao2 bíli bismo oklijevali2 bíli biste oklijevali2 bíli bi oklijevali2
imperative oklijevaj oklijevajmo oklijevajte
active past participle oklijevao m / oklijevala f / oklijevalo n oklijevali m / oklijevale f / oklijevala 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

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