pokrivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pokrǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧kri‧va‧ti

Verb

pokrívati impf (Cyrillic spelling покри́вати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to cover

Conjugation

Conjugation of pokrivati
infinitive pokrivati
present verbal adverb pokrívajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pokrívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pokrivam pokrivaš pokriva pokrivamo pokrivate pokrivaju
future future I pokrivat ću1
pokrivaću
pokrivat ćeš1
pokrivaćeš
pokrivat će1
pokrivaće
pokrivat ćemo1
pokrivaćemo
pokrivat ćete1
pokrivaćete
pokrivat ćē1
pokrivaće
future II bȕdēm pokrivao2 bȕdēš pokrivao2 bȕdē pokrivao2 bȕdēmo pokrivali2 bȕdēte pokrivali2 bȕdū pokrivali2
past perfect pokrivao sam2 pokrivao si2 pokrivao je2 pokrivali smo2 pokrivali ste2 pokrivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pokrivao2 bȉo si pokrivao2 bȉo je pokrivao2 bíli smo pokrivali2 bíli ste pokrivali2 bíli su pokrivali2
imperfect pokrivah pokrivaše pokrivaše pokrivasmo pokrivaste pokrivahu
conditional conditional I pokrivao bih2 pokrivao bi2 pokrivao bi2 pokrivali bismo2 pokrivali biste2 pokrivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pokrivao2 bȉo bi pokrivao2 bȉo bi pokrivao2 bíli bismo pokrivali2 bíli biste pokrivali2 bíli bi pokrivali2
imperative pokrivaj pokrivajmo pokrivajte
active past participle pokrivao m / pokrivala f / pokrivalo n pokrivali m / pokrivale f / pokrivala n
passive past participle pokrivan m / pokrivana f / pokrivano n pokrivani m / pokrivane f / pokrivana 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

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