ovisiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From o- +‎ visiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ǒʋisiti/
Hyphenation: o‧vi‧si‧ti

Verb

òvisiti impf (Cyrillic spelling о̀висити)

(intransitive, locative) to depend on, hang on (with +o)
Sve ovisi o tebi.
Everything depends on you.
(literally, “It all depends on you.”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ovisiti

Infinitive: ovisiti		Present verbal adverb: òvisēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: òvišēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ovisim	ovisiš	ovisi	ovisimo	ovisite	ovise
Future	Future I	ovisit ću¹ ovisiću	ovisit ćeš¹ ovisićeš	ovisit će¹ ovisiće	ovisit ćemo¹ ovisićemo	ovisit ćete¹ ovisićete	ovisit će¹ ovisiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ovisio²	bȕdēš ovisio²	bȕdē ovisio²	bȕdēmo ovisili²	bȕdēte ovisili²	bȕdū ovisili²
Past	Perfect	ovisio sam²	ovisio si²	ovisio je²	ovisili smo²	ovisili ste²	ovisili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam ovisio²	bȉo si ovisio²	bȉo je ovisio²	bíli smo ovisili²	bíli ste ovisili²	bíli su ovisili²
	Imperfect	ovišah	ovišaše	ovišaše	ovišasmo	ovišaste	ovišahu
Conditional I		ovisio bih²	ovisio bi²	ovisio bi²	ovisili bismo²	ovisili biste²	ovisili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih ovisio²	bȉo bi ovisio²	bȉo bi ovisio²	bíli bismo ovisili²	bíli biste ovisili²	bíli bi ovisili²
Imperative		—	ovisi	—	ovisimo	ovisite	—
Active past participle		ovisio m / ovisila f / ovisilo n			ovisili m / ovisile f / ovisila 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.

Derived terms

òvisnīk (“addict, junkie”)