pripovedati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pripovědati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pripoʋěːdati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧po‧ve‧da‧ti

Verb

pripovédati impf (Cyrillic spelling припове́дати)

  1. (ambitransitive) to narrate, recount

Conjugation

Conjugation of pripovedati
infinitive pripovedati
present verbal adverb pripovedajūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pripovedānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present pripovedam pripovedaš pripoveda pripovedamo pripovedate pripovedaju
future future I pripovedat ću1
pripovedaću
pripovedat ćeš1
pripovedaćeš
pripovedat će1
pripovedaće
pripovedat ćemo1
pripovedaćemo
pripovedat ćete1
pripovedaćete
pripovedat ćē1
pripovedaće
future II bȕdēm pripovedao2 bȕdēš pripovedao2 bȕdē pripovedao2 bȕdēmo pripovedali2 bȕdēte pripovedali2 bȕdū pripovedali2
past perfect pripovedao sam2 pripovedao si2 pripovedao je2 pripovedali smo2 pripovedali ste2 pripovedali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam pripovedao2 bȉo si pripovedao2 bȉo je pripovedao2 bíli smo pripovedali2 bíli ste pripovedali2 bíli su pripovedali2
imperfect pripovedah pripovedaše pripovedaše pripovedasmo pripovedaste pripovedahu
conditional conditional I pripovedao bih2 pripovedao bi2 pripovedao bi2 pripovedali bismo2 pripovedali biste2 pripovedali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih pripovedao2 bȉo bi pripovedao2 bȉo bi pripovedao2 bíli bismo pripovedali2 bíli biste pripovedali2 bíli bi pripovedali2
imperative pripovedaj pripovedajmo pripovedajte
active past participle pripovedao m / pripovedala f / pripovedalo n pripovedali m / pripovedale f / pripovedala n
passive past participle pripovedan m / pripovedana f / pripovedano n pripovedani m / pripovedane f / pripovedana 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.