ponižavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poniʒǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ni‧ža‧va‧ti

Verb

ponižávati impf (Cyrillic spelling понижа́вати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to humiliate

Conjugation

Conjugation of ponižavati
infinitive ponižavati
present verbal adverb ponižávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun ponižávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present ponižavam ponižavaš ponižava ponižavamo ponižavate ponižavaju
future future I ponižavat ću1
ponižavaću
ponižavat ćeš1
ponižavaćeš
ponižavat će1
ponižavaće
ponižavat ćemo1
ponižavaćemo
ponižavat ćete1
ponižavaćete
ponižavat ćē1
ponižavaće
future II bȕdēm ponižavao2 bȕdēš ponižavao2 bȕdē ponižavao2 bȕdēmo ponižavali2 bȕdēte ponižavali2 bȕdū ponižavali2
past perfect ponižavao sam2 ponižavao si2 ponižavao je2 ponižavali smo2 ponižavali ste2 ponižavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam ponižavao2 bȉo si ponižavao2 bȉo je ponižavao2 bíli smo ponižavali2 bíli ste ponižavali2 bíli su ponižavali2
imperfect ponižavah ponižavaše ponižavaše ponižavasmo ponižavaste ponižavahu
conditional conditional I ponižavao bih2 ponižavao bi2 ponižavao bi2 ponižavali bismo2 ponižavali biste2 ponižavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih ponižavao2 bȉo bi ponižavao2 bȉo bi ponižavao2 bíli bismo ponižavali2 bíli biste ponižavali2 bíli bi ponižavali2
imperative ponižavaj ponižavajmo ponižavajte
active past participle ponižavao m / ponižavala f / ponižavalo n ponižavali m / ponižavale f / ponižavala n
passive past participle ponižavan m / ponižavana f / ponižavano n ponižavani m / ponižavane f / ponižavana 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.