dohvaćati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From dòhvatiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dǒxʋat͡ɕati/
Hyphenation: do‧hva‧ća‧ti

Verb

dòhvaćati impf (Cyrillic spelling до̀хваћати)

imperfective form of dòhvatiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of dohvaćati

Infinitive: dohvaćati		Present verbal adverb: dòhvaćajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dòhvaćānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dohvaćam	dohvaćaš	dohvaća	dohvaćamo	dohvaćate	dohvaćaju
Future	Future I	dohvaćat ću¹ dohvaćaću	dohvaćat ćeš¹ dohvaćaćeš	dohvaćat će¹ dohvaćaće	dohvaćat ćemo¹ dohvaćaćemo	dohvaćat ćete¹ dohvaćaćete	dohvaćat će¹ dohvaćaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm dohvaćao²	bȕdēš dohvaćao²	bȕdē dohvaćao²	bȕdēmo dohvaćali²	bȕdēte dohvaćali²	bȕdū dohvaćali²
Past	Perfect	dohvaćao sam²	dohvaćao si²	dohvaćao je²	dohvaćali smo²	dohvaćali ste²	dohvaćali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam dohvaćao²	bȉo si dohvaćao²	bȉo je dohvaćao²	bíli smo dohvaćali²	bíli ste dohvaćali²	bíli su dohvaćali²
	Imperfect	dohvaćah	dohvaćaše	dohvaćaše	dohvaćasmo	dohvaćaste	dohvaćahu
Conditional I		dohvaćao bih²	dohvaćao bi²	dohvaćao bi²	dohvaćali bismo²	dohvaćali biste²	dohvaćali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih dohvaćao²	bȉo bi dohvaćao²	bȉo bi dohvaćao²	bíli bismo dohvaćali²	bíli biste dohvaćali²	bíli bi dohvaćali²
Imperative		—	dohvaćaj	—	dohvaćajmo	dohvaćajte	—
Active past participle		dohvaćao m / dohvaćala f / dohvaćalo n			dohvaćali m / dohvaćale f / dohvaćala n
Passive past participle		dohvaćan m / dohvaćana f / dohvaćano n			dohvaćani m / dohvaćane f / dohvaćana 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.

References

“dohvaćati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024