prizivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prizǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pri‧zi‧va‧ti

Verb

prizívati impf (Cyrillic spelling призи́вати)

  1. (transitive) to call (to come closer)
  2. (transitive) to evoke, invoke (of events, memories, spirits)

Conjugation

Conjugation of prizivati
infinitive prizivati
present verbal adverb prizívajūći / prìzivljūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun prizívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present prizivam / prizivljem prizivaš / prizivlješ priziva / prizivlje prizivamo / prizivljemo prizivate / prizivljete prizivaju / prizivlju
future future I prizivat ću1
prizivaću
prizivat ćeš1
prizivaćeš
prizivat će1
prizivaće
prizivat ćemo1
prizivaćemo
prizivat ćete1
prizivaćete
prizivat ćē1
prizivaće
future II bȕdēm prizivao2 bȕdēš prizivao2 bȕdē prizivao2 bȕdēmo prizivali2 bȕdēte prizivali2 bȕdū prizivali2
past perfect prizivao sam2 prizivao si2 prizivao je2 prizivali smo2 prizivali ste2 prizivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam prizivao2 bȉo si prizivao2 bȉo je prizivao2 bíli smo prizivali2 bíli ste prizivali2 bíli su prizivali2
imperfect prizivah prizivaše prizivaše prizivasmo prizivaste prizivahu
conditional conditional I prizivao bih2 prizivao bi2 prizivao bi2 prizivali bismo2 prizivali biste2 prizivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih prizivao2 bȉo bi prizivao2 bȉo bi prizivao2 bíli bismo prizivali2 bíli biste prizivali2 bíli bi prizivali2
imperative prizivaj / prizivlji prizivajmo / prizivljimo prizivajte / prizivljite
active past participle prizivao m / prizivala f / prizivalo n prizivali m / prizivale f / prizivala 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

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