primoravati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /primorǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧mo‧ra‧va‧ti

Verb

primorávati impf (Cyrillic spelling примора́вати)

  1. (transitive) to force, coerce

Conjugation

Conjugation of primoravati
infinitive primoravati
present verbal adverb primorávajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun primorávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present primoravam primoravaš primorava primoravamo primoravate primoravaju
future future I primoravat ću1
primoravaću
primoravat ćeš1
primoravaćeš
primoravat će1
primoravaće
primoravat ćemo1
primoravaćemo
primoravat ćete1
primoravaćete
primoravat ćē1
primoravaće
future II bȕdēm primoravao2 bȕdēš primoravao2 bȕdē primoravao2 bȕdēmo primoravali2 bȕdēte primoravali2 bȕdū primoravali2
past perfect primoravao sam2 primoravao si2 primoravao je2 primoravali smo2 primoravali ste2 primoravali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam primoravao2 bȉo si primoravao2 bȉo je primoravao2 bíli smo primoravali2 bíli ste primoravali2 bíli su primoravali2
imperfect primoravah primoravaše primoravaše primoravasmo primoravaste primoravahu
conditional conditional I primoravao bih2 primoravao bi2 primoravao bi2 primoravali bismo2 primoravali biste2 primoravali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih primoravao2 bȉo bi primoravao2 bȉo bi primoravao2 bíli bismo primoravali2 bíli biste primoravali2 bíli bi primoravali2
imperative primoravaj primoravajmo primoravajte
active past participle primoravao m / primoravala f / primoravalo n primoravali m / primoravale f / primoravala n
passive past participle primoravan m / primoravana f / primoravano n primoravani m / primoravane f / primoravana 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

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