odgovarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /odɡoʋǎːrati/
• Hyphenation: od‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

odgovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling одгова́рати)

1. (intransitive) to answer, reply
2. (intransitive) to suit, fit
3. (intransitive) to correspond, match, equate
4. (intransitive) to be responsible for sth, answer for

Usage notes

Meanings suit, fit, match and correspond are calques of German entsprechen.

Conjugation

Conjugation of odgovarati

Infinitive: odgovarati		Present verbal adverb: odgovárajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: odgovárānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		odgovaram	odgovaraš	odgovara	odgovaramo	odgovarate	odgovaraju
Future	Future I	odgovarat ću1 odgovaraću	odgovarat ćeš1 odgovaraćeš	odgovarat će1 odgovaraće	odgovarat ćemo1 odgovaraćemo	odgovarat ćete1 odgovaraćete	odgovarat će1 odgovaraće
	Future II	bȕdēm odgovarao2	bȕdēš odgovarao2	bȕdē odgovarao2	bȕdēmo odgovarali2	bȕdēte odgovarali2	bȕdū odgovarali2
Past	Perfect	odgovarao sam2	odgovarao si2	odgovarao je2	odgovarali smo2	odgovarali ste2	odgovarali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam odgovarao2	bȉo si odgovarao2	bȉo je odgovarao2	bíli smo odgovarali2	bíli ste odgovarali2	bíli su odgovarali2
	Imperfect	odgovarah	odgovaraše	odgovaraše	odgovarasmo	odgovaraste	odgovarahu
Conditional I		odgovarao bih2	odgovarao bi2	odgovarao bi2	odgovarali bismo2	odgovarali biste2	odgovarali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih odgovarao2	bȉo bi odgovarao2	bȉo bi odgovarao2	bíli bismo odgovarali2	bíli biste odgovarali2	bíli bi odgovarali2
Imperative		—	odgovaraj	—	odgovarajmo	odgovarajte	—
Active past participle		odgovarao m / odgovarala f / odgovaralo n			odgovarali m / odgovarale f / odgovarala n
Passive past participle		odgovaran m / odgovarana f / odgovarano n			odgovarani m / odgovarane f / odgovarana 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

• odgovóriti pf