približavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pribliʒǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧bli‧ža‧va‧ti

Verb

približávati impf (Cyrillic spelling приближа́вати)

  1. (transitive) to bring closer
  2. (reflexive) to approach, come closer, near

Conjugation

Conjugation of približavati
infinitive približavati
present verbal adverb približávajūći
past verbal adverb —
verbal noun približávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present približavam približavaš približava približavamo približavate približavaju
future future I približavat ću1
približavaću 		približavat ćeš1
približavaćeš 		približavat će1
približavaće 		približavat ćemo1
približavaćemo 		približavat ćete1
približavaćete 		približavat ćē1
približavaće
future II bȕdēm približavao2 bȕdēš približavao2 bȕdē približavao2 bȕdēmo približavali2 bȕdēte približavali2 bȕdū približavali2
past perfect približavao sam2 približavao si2 približavao je2 približavali smo2 približavali ste2 približavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam približavao2 bȉo si približavao2 bȉo je približavao2 bíli smo približavali2 bíli ste približavali2 bíli su približavali2
imperfect približavah približavaše približavaše približavasmo približavaste približavahu
conditional conditional I približavao bih2 približavao bi2 približavao bi2 približavali bismo2 približavali biste2 približavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih približavao2 bȉo bi približavao2 bȉo bi približavao2 bíli bismo približavali2 bíli biste približavali2 bíli bi približavali2
imperative — približavaj — približavajmo približavajte —
active past participle približavao m / približavala f / približavalo n približavali m / približavale f / približavala n
passive past participle približavan m / približavana f / približavano n približavani m / približavane f / približavana 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

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