rovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rǒʋati/
• Hyphenation: ro‧va‧ti

Verb

ròvati impf (Cyrillic spelling ро̀вати)

1. (transitive) to root, dig up with snot
2. (transitive) to rummage, search
3. (intransitive) to undermine, plot, scheme

Conjugation

Conjugation of rovati

Infinitive: rovati		Present verbal adverb: rȕjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ròvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		rujem	ruješ	ruje	rujemo	rujete	ruju
Future	Future I	rovat ću1 rovaću	rovat ćeš1 rovaćeš	rovat će1 rovaće	rovat ćemo1 rovaćemo	rovat ćete1 rovaćete	rovat će1 rovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm rovao2	bȕdēš rovao2	bȕdē rovao2	bȕdēmo rovali2	bȕdēte rovali2	bȕdū rovali2
Past	Perfect	rovao sam2	rovao si2	rovao je2	rovali smo2	rovali ste2	rovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam rovao2	bȉo si rovao2	bȉo je rovao2	bíli smo rovali2	bíli ste rovali2	bíli su rovali2
	Imperfect	rovah	rovaše	rovaše	rovasmo	rovaste	rovahu
Conditional I		rovao bih2	rovao bi2	rovao bi2	rovali bismo2	rovali biste2	rovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih rovao2	bȉo bi rovao2	bȉo bi rovao2	bíli bismo rovali2	bíli biste rovali2	bíli bi rovali2
Imperative		—	ruj	—	rujmo	rujte	—
Active past participle		rovao m / rovala f / rovalo n			rovali m / rovale f / rovala n
Passive past participle		rovan m / rovana f / rovano n			rovani m / rovane f / rovana 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

• izròvati
• proròvati
• razròvati