bivovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bȉti (“to be”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bivòvati impf (Cyrillic spelling биво̀вати)

(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	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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024