izoštravati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /izoʃtrǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: i‧zo‧štra‧va‧ti

Verb

izoštrávati impf (Cyrillic spelling изоштра́вати)

1. (transitive) to sharpen, hone
2. (transitive) to refine (in perception, view point, criteria etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of izoštravati

Infinitive: izoštravati		Present verbal adverb: izoštrávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: izoštrávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		izoštravam	izoštravaš	izoštrava	izoštravamo	izoštravate	izoštravaju
Future	Future I	izoštravat ću1 izoštravaću	izoštravat ćeš1 izoštravaćeš	izoštravat će1 izoštravaće	izoštravat ćemo1 izoštravaćemo	izoštravat ćete1 izoštravaćete	izoštravat ćē1 izoštravaće
	Future II	bȕdēm izoštravao2	bȕdēš izoštravao2	bȕdē izoštravao2	bȕdēmo izoštravali2	bȕdēte izoštravali2	bȕdū izoštravali2
Past	Perfect	izoštravao sam2	izoštravao si2	izoštravao je2	izoštravali smo2	izoštravali ste2	izoštravali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam izoštravao2	bȉo si izoštravao2	bȉo je izoštravao2	bíli smo izoštravali2	bíli ste izoštravali2	bíli su izoštravali2
	Imperfect	izoštravah	izoštravaše	izoštravaše	izoštravasmo	izoštravaste	izoštravahu
Conditional I		izoštravao bih2	izoštravao bi2	izoštravao bi2	izoštravali bismo2	izoštravali biste2	izoštravali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih izoštravao2	bȉo bi izoštravao2	bȉo bi izoštravao2	bíli bismo izoštravali2	bíli biste izoštravali2	bíli bi izoštravali2
Imperative		—	izoštravaj	—	izoštravajmo	izoštravajte	—
Active past participle		izoštravao m / izoštravala f / izoštravalo n			izoštravali m / izoštravale f / izoštravala n
Passive past participle		izoštravan m / izoštravana f / izoštravano n			izoštravani m / izoštravane f / izoštravana 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

• izòštriti pf

Further reading

• “izoštravati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025