oklijevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

oklévati (Ekavian)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /okljěːʋati/
Hyphenation: o‧klije‧va‧ti

Verb

oklijévati impf (Cyrillic spelling оклије́вати)

to hesitate, vacillate

Conjugation

Conjugation of oklijevati

Infinitive: oklijevati		Present verbal adverb: oklijévajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: oklijévānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		oklijevam	oklijevaš	oklijeva	oklijevamo	oklijevate	oklijevaju
Future	Future I	oklijevat ću¹ oklijevaću	oklijevat ćeš¹ oklijevaćeš	oklijevat će¹ oklijevaće	oklijevat ćemo¹ oklijevaćemo	oklijevat ćete¹ oklijevaćete	oklijevat će¹ oklijevaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm oklijevao²	bȕdēš oklijevao²	bȕdē oklijevao²	bȕdēmo oklijevali²	bȕdēte oklijevali²	bȕdū oklijevali²
Past	Perfect	oklijevao sam²	oklijevao si²	oklijevao je²	oklijevali smo²	oklijevali ste²	oklijevali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam oklijevao²	bȉo si oklijevao²	bȉo je oklijevao²	bíli smo oklijevali²	bíli ste oklijevali²	bíli su oklijevali²
	Imperfect	oklijevah	oklijevaše	oklijevaše	oklijevasmo	oklijevaste	oklijevahu
Conditional I		oklijevao bih²	oklijevao bi²	oklijevao bi²	oklijevali bismo²	oklijevali biste²	oklijevali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih oklijevao²	bȉo bi oklijevao²	bȉo bi oklijevao²	bíli bismo oklijevali²	bíli biste oklijevali²	bíli bi oklijevali²
Imperative		—	oklijevaj	—	oklijevajmo	oklijevajte	—
Active past participle		oklijevao m / oklijevala f / oklijevalo n			oklijevali m / oklijevale f / oklijevala 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.