prigovarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /priɡoʋǎːrati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

prigovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling пригова́рати)

  1. (intransitive) to reproach, rebuke, scold
  2. (intransitive) to complain

Conjugation

Conjugation of prigovarati
infinitive prigovarati
present verbal adverb prigovárajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun prigovárānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present prigovaram prigovaraš prigovara prigovaramo prigovarate prigovaraju
future future I prigovarat ću1
prigovaraću
prigovarat ćeš1
prigovaraćeš
prigovarat će1
prigovaraće
prigovarat ćemo1
prigovaraćemo
prigovarat ćete1
prigovaraćete
prigovarat ćē1
prigovaraće
future II bȕdēm prigovarao2 bȕdēš prigovarao2 bȕdē prigovarao2 bȕdēmo prigovarali2 bȕdēte prigovarali2 bȕdū prigovarali2
past perfect prigovarao sam2 prigovarao si2 prigovarao je2 prigovarali smo2 prigovarali ste2 prigovarali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam prigovarao2 bȉo si prigovarao2 bȉo je prigovarao2 bíli smo prigovarali2 bíli ste prigovarali2 bíli su prigovarali2
imperfect prigovarah prigovaraše prigovaraše prigovarasmo prigovaraste prigovarahu
conditional conditional I prigovarao bih2 prigovarao bi2 prigovarao bi2 prigovarali bismo2 prigovarali biste2 prigovarali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih prigovarao2 bȉo bi prigovarao2 bȉo bi prigovarao2 bíli bismo prigovarali2 bíli biste prigovarali2 bíli bi prigovarali2
imperative prigovaraj prigovarajmo prigovarajte
active past participle prigovarao m / prigovarala f / prigovaralo n prigovarali m / prigovarale f / prigovarala 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

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