pravdati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /prâːʋdati/
Hyphenation: prav‧da‧ti

Verb edit

prȃvdati impf (Cyrillic spelling пра̑вдати)

(transitive) to justify, excuse
(reflexive) to argue, quarrel

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of pravdati

Infinitive: pravdati		Present verbal adverb: prȃvdajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prȃvdānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pravdam	pravdaš	pravda	pravdamo	pravdate	pravdaju
Future	Future I	pravdat ću¹ pravdaću	pravdat ćeš¹ pravdaćeš	pravdat će¹ pravdaće	pravdat ćemo¹ pravdaćemo	pravdat ćete¹ pravdaćete	pravdat će¹ pravdaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm pravdao²	bȕdēš pravdao²	bȕdē pravdao²	bȕdēmo pravdali²	bȕdēte pravdali²	bȕdū pravdali²
Past	Perfect	pravdao sam²	pravdao si²	pravdao je²	pravdali smo²	pravdali ste²	pravdali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam pravdao²	bȉo si pravdao²	bȉo je pravdao²	bíli smo pravdali²	bíli ste pravdali²	bíli su pravdali²
	Imperfect	pravdah	pravdaše	pravdaše	pravdasmo	pravdaste	pravdahu
Conditional I		pravdao bih²	pravdao bi²	pravdao bi²	pravdali bismo²	pravdali biste²	pravdali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih pravdao²	bȉo bi pravdao²	bȉo bi pravdao²	bíli bismo pravdali²	bíli biste pravdali²	bíli bi pravdali²
Imperative		—	pravdaj	—	pravdajmo	pravdajte	—
Active past participle		pravdao m / pravdala f / pravdalo n			pravdali m / pravdale f / pravdala n
Passive past participle		pravdan m / pravdana f / pravdano n			pravdani m / pravdane f / pravdana 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 edit

òprāvdati