bivovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bȉti (“to be”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biʋǒʋati/
• Hyphenation: bi‧vo‧va‧ti

Verb

bivòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling биво̀вати)

1. (intransitive) to be, exist

Conjugation

Conjugation of bivovati

Infinitive: bivovati		Present verbal adverb: bìvujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: bivòvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		bivujem	bivuješ	bivuje	bivujemo	bivujete	bivuju
Future	Future I	bivovat ću1 bivovaću	bivovat ćeš1 bivovaćeš	bivovat će1 bivovaće	bivovat ćemo1 bivovaćemo	bivovat ćete1 bivovaćete	bivovat će1 bivovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm bivovao2	bȕdēš bivovao2	bȕdē bivovao2	bȕdēmo bivovali2	bȕdēte bivovali2	bȕdū bivovali2
Past	Perfect	bivovao sam2	bivovao si2	bivovao je2	bivovali smo2	bivovali ste2	bivovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam bivovao2	bȉo si bivovao2	bȉo je bivovao2	bíli smo bivovali2	bíli ste bivovali2	bíli su bivovali2
	Imperfect	bivovah	bivovaše	bivovaše	bivovasmo	bivovaste	bivovahu
Conditional I		bivovao bih2	bivovao bi2	bivovao bi2	bivovali bismo2	bivovali biste2	bivovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih bivovao2	bȉo bi bivovao2	bȉo bi bivovao2	bíli bismo bivovali2	bíli biste bivovali2	bíli bi bivovali2
Imperative		—	bivuj	—	bivujmo	bivujte	—
Active past participle		bivovao m / bivovala f / bivovalo n			bivovali m / bivovale f / bivovala 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.

References

• “bivovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024