oklevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

oklijévati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oklěːʋati/
Hyphenation: o‧kle‧va‧ti

Verb

oklévati impf (Cyrillic spelling окле́вати)

to hesitate, vacillate

Conjugation

Conjugation of oklevati

Infinitive: oklevati		Present verbal adverb: oklévajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: oklévānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		oklevam	oklevaš	okleva	oklevamo	oklevate	oklevaju
Future	Future I	oklevat ću¹ oklevaću	oklevat ćeš¹ oklevaćeš	oklevat će¹ oklevaće	oklevat ćemo¹ oklevaćemo	oklevat ćete¹ oklevaćete	oklevat će¹ oklevaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm oklevao²	bȕdēš oklevao²	bȕdē oklevao²	bȕdēmo oklevali²	bȕdēte oklevali²	bȕdū oklevali²
Past	Perfect	oklevao sam²	oklevao si²	oklevao je²	oklevali smo²	oklevali ste²	oklevali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam oklevao²	bȉo si oklevao²	bȉo je oklevao²	bíli smo oklevali²	bíli ste oklevali²	bíli su oklevali²
	Imperfect	oklevah	oklevaše	oklevaše	oklevasmo	oklevaste	oklevahu
Conditional I		oklevao bih²	oklevao bi²	oklevao bi²	oklevali bismo²	oklevali biste²	oklevali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih oklevao²	bȉo bi oklevao²	bȉo bi oklevao²	bíli bismo oklevali²	bíli biste oklevali²	bíli bi oklevali²
Imperative		—	oklevaj	—	oklevajmo	oklevajte	—
Active past participle		oklevao m / oklevala f / oklevalo n			oklevali m / oklevale f / oklevala 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.