dočekivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dot͡ʃekǐːʋati/
Hyphenation: do‧če‧ki‧va‧ti

Verb

dočekívati impf (Cyrillic spelling дочеки́вати)

(transitive) to welcome, receive, greet
(transitive) to live long enough to see that what one waited for happen or came true
(reflexive) to land, fall safely (on one's feet, of a person or animal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dočekivati

Infinitive: dočekivati		Present verbal adverb: dočèkujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dočekívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dočekujem	dočekuješ	dočekuje	dočekujemo	dočekujete	dočekuju
Future	Future I	dočekivat ću¹ dočekivaću	dočekivat ćeš¹ dočekivaćeš	dočekivat će¹ dočekivaće	dočekivat ćemo¹ dočekivaćemo	dočekivat ćete¹ dočekivaćete	dočekivat će¹ dočekivaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm dočekivao²	bȕdēš dočekivao²	bȕdē dočekivao²	bȕdēmo dočekivali²	bȕdēte dočekivali²	bȕdū dočekivali²
Past	Perfect	dočekivao sam²	dočekivao si²	dočekivao je²	dočekivali smo²	dočekivali ste²	dočekivali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam dočekivao²	bȉo si dočekivao²	bȉo je dočekivao²	bíli smo dočekivali²	bíli ste dočekivali²	bíli su dočekivali²
	Imperfect	dočekivah	dočekivaše	dočekivaše	dočekivasmo	dočekivaste	dočekivahu
Conditional I		dočekivao bih²	dočekivao bi²	dočekivao bi²	dočekivali bismo²	dočekivali biste²	dočekivali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih dočekivao²	bȉo bi dočekivao²	bȉo bi dočekivao²	bíli bismo dočekivali²	bíli biste dočekivali²	bíli bi dočekivali²
Imperative		—	dočekuj	—	dočekujmo	dočekujte	—
Active past participle		dočekivao m / dočekivala f / dočekivalo n			dočekivali m / dočekivale f / dočekivala n
Passive past participle		dočekivan m / dočekivana f / dočekivano n			dočekivani m / dočekivane f / dočekivana 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.

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