odavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /odǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: o‧da‧va‧ti

Verb

odávati impf (Cyrillic spelling ода́вати)

1. (transitive) to reveal, disclose
2. (transitive, reflexive) to betray, give away
3. (intransitive) to show, pay, bestow (respect, credit, honor, etc.)
4. (reflexive) to become addicted to (gambling, alcohol, vices etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of odavati

Infinitive: odavati		Present verbal adverb: odávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: odávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		odajem	odaješ	odaje	odajemo	odajete	odaju
Future	Future I	odavat ću1 odavaću	odavat ćeš1 odavaćeš	odavat će1 odavaće	odavat ćemo1 odavaćemo	odavat ćete1 odavaćete	odavat će1 odavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm odavao2	bȕdēš odavao2	bȕdē odavao2	bȕdēmo odavali2	bȕdēte odavali2	bȕdū odavali2
Past	Perfect	odavao sam2	odavao si2	odavao je2	odavali smo2	odavali ste2	odavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam odavao2	bȉo si odavao2	bȉo je odavao2	bíli smo odavali2	bíli ste odavali2	bíli su odavali2
	Imperfect	odavah	odavaše	odavaše	odavasmo	odavaste	odavahu
Conditional I		odavao bih2	odavao bi2	odavao bi2	odavali bismo2	odavali biste2	odavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih odavao2	bȉo bi odavao2	bȉo bi odavao2	bíli bismo odavali2	bíli biste odavali2	bíli bi odavali2
Imperative		—	odaji	—	odajimo	odajite	—
Active past participle		odavao m / odavala f / odavalo n			odavali m / odavale f / odavala n
Passive past participle		odavan m / odavana f / odavano n			odavani m / odavane f / odavana 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.

Related terms

• òdati pf

Further reading

• “odavati” in Hrvatski jezični portal