dočekivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dot͡ʃekǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: do‧če‧ki‧va‧ti

Verb

dočekívati impf (Cyrillic spelling дочеки́вати)

1. (transitive) to welcome, receive, greet
2. (transitive) to live long enough to see that what one waited for happen or came true
3. (reflexive) to land, fall safely (on one's feet, of a person or animal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dočekivati

Infinitive: dočekivati		Present verbal adverb: dočèkujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dočekívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dočekujem	dočekuješ	dočekuje	dočekujemo	dočekujete	dočekuju
Future	Future I	dočekivat ću1 dočekivaću	dočekivat ćeš1 dočekivaćeš	dočekivat će1 dočekivaće	dočekivat ćemo1 dočekivaćemo	dočekivat ćete1 dočekivaćete	dočekivat će1 dočekivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm dočekivao2	bȕdēš dočekivao2	bȕdē dočekivao2	bȕdēmo dočekivali2	bȕdēte dočekivali2	bȕdū dočekivali2
Past	Perfect	dočekivao sam2	dočekivao si2	dočekivao je2	dočekivali smo2	dočekivali ste2	dočekivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam dočekivao2	bȉo si dočekivao2	bȉo je dočekivao2	bíli smo dočekivali2	bíli ste dočekivali2	bíli su dočekivali2
	Imperfect	dočekivah	dočekivaše	dočekivaše	dočekivasmo	dočekivaste	dočekivahu
Conditional I		dočekivao bih2	dočekivao bi2	dočekivao bi2	dočekivali bismo2	dočekivali biste2	dočekivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih dočekivao2	bȉo bi dočekivao2	bȉo bi dočekivao2	bíli bismo dočekivali2	bíli biste dočekivali2	bíli bi dočekivali2
Imperative		—	dočekuj	—	dočekujmo	dočekujte	—
Active past participle		dočekivao m / dočekivala f / dočekivalo n			dočekivali m / dočekivale f / dočekivala n
Passive past participle		dočekivan m / dočekivana f / dočekivano n			dočekivani m / dočekivane f / dočekivana 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.

Related terms

• dòčekati pf