trovati

Italian

Etymology 1

From trova +‎ -ti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɔ.va.ti/
  • Rhymes: -ɔvati
  • Hyphenation: trò‧va‧ti

Verb

trovati

  1. second-person singular imperative of trovarsi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /troˈva.ti/
  • Rhymes: -ati
  • Hyphenation: tro‧và‧ti

Participle

trovati

  1. masculine plural of trovato

Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *trovati. First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /trǒʋati/
  • Hyphenation: tro‧va‧ti

Verb

tròvati impf (Cyrillic spelling тро̀вати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to poison

Conjugation

Conjugation of trovati
infinitive trovati
present verbal adverb trȕjūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun tròvānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present trujem truješ truje trujemo trujete truju
future future I trovat ću1
trovaću
trovat ćeš1
trovaćeš
trovat će1
trovaće
trovat ćemo1
trovaćemo
trovat ćete1
trovaćete
trovat ćē1
trovaće
future II bȕdēm trovao2 bȕdēš trovao2 bȕdē trovao2 bȕdēmo trovali2 bȕdēte trovali2 bȕdū trovali2
past perfect trovao sam2 trovao si2 trovao je2 trovali smo2 trovali ste2 trovali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam trovao2 bȉo si trovao2 bȉo je trovao2 bíli smo trovali2 bíli ste trovali2 bíli su trovali2
imperfect trovah trovaše trovaše trovasmo trovaste trovahu
conditional conditional I trovao bih2 trovao bi2 trovao bi2 trovali bismo2 trovali biste2 trovali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih trovao2 bȉo bi trovao2 bȉo bi trovao2 bíli bismo trovali2 bíli biste trovali2 bíli bi trovali2
imperative truj trujmo trujte
active past participle trovao m / trovala f / trovalo n trovali m / trovale f / trovala n
passive past participle trovan m / trovana f / trovano n trovani m / trovane f / trovana 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.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “trovati”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 485

Further reading

  • тро̀вати”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2015–2025