ratovati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /râtoʋati/
Hyphenation: ra‧to‧va‧ti

Verb edit

rȁtovati impf (Cyrillic spelling ра̏товати)

(intransitive) to wage war

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of ratovati

Infinitive: ratovati		Present verbal adverb: rȁtujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: rȁtovānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ratujem	ratuješ	ratuje	ratujemo	ratujete	ratuju
Future	Future I	ratovat ću¹ ratovaću	ratovat ćeš¹ ratovaćeš	ratovat će¹ ratovaće	ratovat ćemo¹ ratovaćemo	ratovat ćete¹ ratovaćete	ratovat će¹ ratovaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm ratovao²	bȕdēš ratovao²	bȕdē ratovao²	bȕdēmo ratovali²	bȕdēte ratovali²	bȕdū ratovali²
Past	Perfect	ratovao sam²	ratovao si²	ratovao je²	ratovali smo²	ratovali ste²	ratovali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam ratovao²	bȉo si ratovao²	bȉo je ratovao²	bíli smo ratovali²	bíli ste ratovali²	bíli su ratovali²
	Imperfect	ratovah	ratovaše	ratovaše	ratovasmo	ratovaste	ratovahu
Conditional I		ratovao bih²	ratovao bi²	ratovao bi²	ratovali bismo²	ratovali biste²	ratovali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih ratovao²	bȉo bi ratovao²	bȉo bi ratovao²	bíli bismo ratovali²	bíli biste ratovali²	bíli bi ratovali²
Imperative		—	ratuj	—	ratujmo	ratujte	—
Active past participle		ratovao m / ratovala f / ratovalo n			ratovali m / ratovale f / ratovala 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.