ukazivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ukazǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: u‧ka‧zi‧va‧ti

Verb

ukazívati impf (Cyrillic spelling укази́вати)

  1. (ambitransitive) to point out, point to (facts, errors etc., usually in a form of advice, critic or warning)
  2. (reflexive) to appear (of a supernatural phenomena)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ukazivati
infinitive ukazivati
present verbal adverb ukàzujūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun ukazívānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present ukazujem ukazuješ ukazuje ukazujemo ukazujete ukazuju
future future I ukazivat ću1
ukazivaću
ukazivat ćeš1
ukazivaćeš
ukazivat će1
ukazivaće
ukazivat ćemo1
ukazivaćemo
ukazivat ćete1
ukazivaćete
ukazivat ćē1
ukazivaće
future II bȕdēm ukazivao2 bȕdēš ukazivao2 bȕdē ukazivao2 bȕdēmo ukazivali2 bȕdēte ukazivali2 bȕdū ukazivali2
past perfect ukazivao sam2 ukazivao si2 ukazivao je2 ukazivali smo2 ukazivali ste2 ukazivali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam ukazivao2 bȉo si ukazivao2 bȉo je ukazivao2 bíli smo ukazivali2 bíli ste ukazivali2 bíli su ukazivali2
imperfect ukazivah ukazivaše ukazivaše ukazivasmo ukazivaste ukazivahu
conditional conditional I ukazivao bih2 ukazivao bi2 ukazivao bi2 ukazivali bismo2 ukazivali biste2 ukazivali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih ukazivao2 bȉo bi ukazivao2 bȉo bi ukazivao2 bíli bismo ukazivali2 bíli biste ukazivali2 bíli bi ukazivali2
imperative ukazuj ukazujmo ukazujte
active past participle ukazivao m / ukazivala f / ukazivalo n ukazivali m / ukazivale f / ukazivala n
passive past participle ukazivan m / ukazivana f / ukazivano n ukazivani m / ukazivane f / ukazivana 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

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