hodati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From hȏd (“walk, pace”). Cognates include Czech chodit and Russian ходить (xoditʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xǒːdati/
• Hyphenation: ho‧da‧ti

Verb

hódati impf (Cyrillic spelling хо́дати)

1. (intransitive) to walk, pace
2. (intransitive) to stride
3. (intransitive) to saunter, stroll, amble
4. (intransitive, figurative, colloquial) to date (to be romantically involved with another)
5. (intransitive, figurative, colloquial) run, work, function (operate or fulfill its purpose satisfactorily)

Conjugation

Conjugation of hodati

Infinitive: hodati		Present verbal adverb: hódajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: hódānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		hodam	hodaš	hoda	hodamo	hodate	hodaju
Future	Future I	hodat ću1 hodaću	hodat ćeš1 hodaćeš	hodat će1 hodaće	hodat ćemo1 hodaćemo	hodat ćete1 hodaćete	hodat će1 hodaće
	Future II	bȕdēm hodao2	bȕdēš hodao2	bȕdē hodao2	bȕdēmo hodali2	bȕdēte hodali2	bȕdū hodali2
Past	Perfect	hodao sam2	hodao si2	hodao je2	hodali smo2	hodali ste2	hodali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam hodao2	bȉo si hodao2	bȉo je hodao2	bíli smo hodali2	bíli ste hodali2	bíli su hodali2
	Imperfect	hodah	hodaše	hodaše	hodasmo	hodaste	hodahu
Conditional I		hodao bih2	hodao bi2	hodao bi2	hodali bismo2	hodali biste2	hodali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih hodao2	bȉo bi hodao2	bȉo bi hodao2	bíli bismo hodali2	bíli biste hodali2	bíli bi hodali2
Imperative		—	hodaj	—	hodajmo	hodajte	—
Active past participle		hodao m / hodala f / hodalo n			hodali m / hodale f / hodala 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.

Synonyms

• (Croatia) čepati

Derived terms

• dohódati
• nahódati
• prehódati
• prohódati
• rashódati
• uhódati
• ushódati

Related terms

• hòditi

Further reading

• “hodati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024