dobivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dobǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: do‧bi‧va‧ti

Verb

dobívati impf (Cyrillic spelling доби́вати)

1. imperfective form of dobiti

   Synonym: primiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of dobivati

Infinitive: dobivati		Present verbal adverb: dobívajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: dobívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dobivam	dobivaš	dobiva	dobivamo	dobivate	dobivaju
Future	Future I	dobivat ću1 dobivaću	dobivat ćeš1 dobivaćeš	dobivat će1 dobivaće	dobivat ćemo1 dobivaćemo	dobivat ćete1 dobivaćete	dobivat će1 dobivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm dobivao2	bȕdēš dobivao2	bȕdē dobivao2	bȕdēmo dobivali2	bȕdēte dobivali2	bȕdū dobivali2
Past	Perfect	dobivao sam2	dobivao si2	dobivao je2	dobivali smo2	dobivali ste2	dobivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam dobivao2	bȉo si dobivao2	bȉo je dobivao2	bíli smo dobivali2	bíli ste dobivali2	bíli su dobivali2
	Imperfect	dobivah	dobivaše	dobivaše	dobivasmo	dobivaste	dobivahu
Conditional I		dobivao bih2	dobivao bi2	dobivao bi2	dobivali bismo2	dobivali biste2	dobivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih dobivao2	bȉo bi dobivao2	bȉo bi dobivao2	bíli bismo dobivali2	bíli biste dobivali2	bíli bi dobivali2
Imperative		—	dobivaj	—	dobivajmo	dobivajte	—
Active past participle		dobivao m / dobivala f / dobivalo n			dobivali m / dobivale f / dobivala n
Passive past participle		dobivan m / dobivana f / dobivano n			dobivani m / dobivane f / dobivana 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

• pridobívati
• zadobívati

Related terms

• dobiti pf

Further reading

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