pregovarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /preɡoʋǎːrati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

pregovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling прегова́рати)

  1. (intransitive) to negotiate

Conjugation

Conjugation of pregovarati
infinitive pregovarati
present verbal adverb pregovárajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pregovárānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pregovaram pregovaraš pregovara pregovaramo pregovarate pregovaraju
future future I pregovarat ću1
pregovaraću
pregovarat ćeš1
pregovaraćeš
pregovarat će1
pregovaraće
pregovarat ćemo1
pregovaraćemo
pregovarat ćete1
pregovaraćete
pregovarat ćē1
pregovaraće
future II bȕdēm pregovarao2 bȕdēš pregovarao2 bȕdē pregovarao2 bȕdēmo pregovarali2 bȕdēte pregovarali2 bȕdū pregovarali2
past perfect pregovarao sam2 pregovarao si2 pregovarao je2 pregovarali smo2 pregovarali ste2 pregovarali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pregovarao2 bȉo si pregovarao2 bȉo je pregovarao2 bíli smo pregovarali2 bíli ste pregovarali2 bíli su pregovarali2
imperfect pregovarah pregovaraše pregovaraše pregovarasmo pregovaraste pregovarahu
conditional conditional I pregovarao bih2 pregovarao bi2 pregovarao bi2 pregovarali bismo2 pregovarali biste2 pregovarali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pregovarao2 bȉo bi pregovarao2 bȉo bi pregovarao2 bíli bismo pregovarali2 bíli biste pregovarali2 bíli bi pregovarali2
imperative pregovaraj pregovarajmo pregovarajte
active past participle pregovarao m / pregovarala f / pregovaralo n pregovarali m / pregovarale f / pregovarala 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

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