pridobivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pridobǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧do‧bi‧va‧ti

Verb

pridobívati impf (Cyrillic spelling придоби́вати)

  1. (transitive) to win over, charm (somebody)
  2. (transitive) to acquire, obtain

Conjugation

Conjugation of pridobivati
infinitive pridobivati
present verbal adverb pridobívajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pridobívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pridobivam pridobivaš pridobiva pridobivamo pridobivate pridobivaju
future future I pridobivat ću1
pridobivaću
pridobivat ćeš1
pridobivaćeš
pridobivat će1
pridobivaće
pridobivat ćemo1
pridobivaćemo
pridobivat ćete1
pridobivaćete
pridobivat ćē1
pridobivaće
future II bȕdēm pridobivao2 bȕdēš pridobivao2 bȕdē pridobivao2 bȕdēmo pridobivali2 bȕdēte pridobivali2 bȕdū pridobivali2
past perfect pridobivao sam2 pridobivao si2 pridobivao je2 pridobivali smo2 pridobivali ste2 pridobivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pridobivao2 bȉo si pridobivao2 bȉo je pridobivao2 bíli smo pridobivali2 bíli ste pridobivali2 bíli su pridobivali2
imperfect pridobivah pridobivaše pridobivaše pridobivasmo pridobivaste pridobivahu
conditional conditional I pridobivao bih2 pridobivao bi2 pridobivao bi2 pridobivali bismo2 pridobivali biste2 pridobivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pridobivao2 bȉo bi pridobivao2 bȉo bi pridobivao2 bíli bismo pridobivali2 bíli biste pridobivali2 bíli bi pridobivali2
imperative pridobivaj pridobivajmo pridobivajte
active past participle pridobivao m / pridobivala f / pridobivalo n pridobivali m / pridobivale f / pridobivala n
passive past participle pridobivan m / pridobivana f / pridobivano n pridobivani m / pridobivane f / pridobivana 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

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