poverovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From po- +‎ verovati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǒʋeroʋati/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ve‧ro‧va‧ti

Verb

pòverovati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀веровати)

  1. (ambitransitive) to believe
    teško je pov(j)erovati u toit's really hard to believe it
    teško mi je pov(j)erovati u toI find that hard to believe
    skoro sam ti pov(j)erovao!you almost had me!

Conjugation

Conjugation of poverovati
infinitive poverovati
present verbal adverb
past verbal adverb pòverovāvši
verbal noun
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present poverujem poveruješ poveruje poverujemo poverujete poveruju
future future I poverovat ću1
poverovaću
poverovat ćeš1
poverovaćeš
poverovat će1
poverovaće
poverovat ćemo1
poverovaćemo
poverovat ćete1
poverovaćete
poverovat ćē1
poverovaće
future II bȕdēm poverovao2 bȕdēš poverovao2 bȕdē poverovao2 bȕdēmo poverovali2 bȕdēte poverovali2 bȕdū poverovali2
past perfect poverovao sam2 poverovao si2 poverovao je2 poverovali smo2 poverovali ste2 poverovali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam poverovao2 bȉo si poverovao2 bȉo je poverovao2 bíli smo poverovali2 bíli ste poverovali2 bíli su poverovali2
aorist poverovah poverova poverova poverovasmo poverovaste poverovaše
conditional conditional I poverovao bih2 poverovao bi2 poverovao bi2 poverovali bismo2 poverovali biste2 poverovali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih poverovao2 bȉo bi poverovao2 bȉo bi poverovao2 bíli bismo poverovali2 bíli biste poverovali2 bíli bi poverovali2
imperative poveruj poverujmo poverujte
active past participle poverovao m / poverovala f / poverovalo n poverovali m / poverovale f / poverovala 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.

References

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