pokrivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pokrǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: po‧kri‧va‧ti

Verb

pokrívati impf (Cyrillic spelling покри́вати)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to cover

Conjugation

Conjugation of pokrivati

Infinitive: pokrivati		Present verbal adverb: pokrívajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pokrívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pokrivam	pokrivaš	pokriva	pokrivamo	pokrivate	pokrivaju
Future	Future I	pokrivat ću1 pokrivaću	pokrivat ćeš1 pokrivaćeš	pokrivat će1 pokrivaće	pokrivat ćemo1 pokrivaćemo	pokrivat ćete1 pokrivaćete	pokrivat će1 pokrivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm pokrivao2	bȕdēš pokrivao2	bȕdē pokrivao2	bȕdēmo pokrivali2	bȕdēte pokrivali2	bȕdū pokrivali2
Past	Perfect	pokrivao sam2	pokrivao si2	pokrivao je2	pokrivali smo2	pokrivali ste2	pokrivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pokrivao2	bȉo si pokrivao2	bȉo je pokrivao2	bíli smo pokrivali2	bíli ste pokrivali2	bíli su pokrivali2
	Imperfect	pokrivah	pokrivaše	pokrivaše	pokrivasmo	pokrivaste	pokrivahu
Conditional I		pokrivao bih2	pokrivao bi2	pokrivao bi2	pokrivali bismo2	pokrivali biste2	pokrivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pokrivao2	bȉo bi pokrivao2	bȉo bi pokrivao2	bíli bismo pokrivali2	bíli biste pokrivali2	bíli bi pokrivali2
Imperative		—	pokrivaj	—	pokrivajmo	pokrivajte	—
Active past participle		pokrivao m / pokrivala f / pokrivalo n			pokrivali m / pokrivale f / pokrivala n
Passive past participle		pokrivan m / pokrivana f / pokrivano n			pokrivani m / pokrivane f / pokrivana 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

• pòkriti pf

Further reading

• “pokrivati” in Hrvatski jezični portal