ogovarati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From o- + govor, govoriti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɡoʋǎːrati/
• Hyphenation: o‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

ogovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling огова́рати)

1. (transitive) to badmouth

   ogovarali smo te iza leđa ― we were badmouthing you behind your back

   kučka je otišla..hajdemo je ogovorati! ― the bitch is gone..let's trash-talk her!

Conjugation

Conjugation of ogovarati

Infinitive: ogovarati		Present verbal adverb: ogovárajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ogovárānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		ogovaram	ogovaraš	ogovara	ogovaramo	ogovarate	ogovaraju
Future	Future I	ogovarat ću1 ogovaraću	ogovarat ćeš1 ogovaraćeš	ogovarat će1 ogovaraće	ogovarat ćemo1 ogovaraćemo	ogovarat ćete1 ogovaraćete	ogovarat će1 ogovaraće
	Future II	bȕdēm ogovarao2	bȕdēš ogovarao2	bȕdē ogovarao2	bȕdēmo ogovarali2	bȕdēte ogovarali2	bȕdū ogovarali2
Past	Perfect	ogovarao sam2	ogovarao si2	ogovarao je2	ogovarali smo2	ogovarali ste2	ogovarali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam ogovarao2	bȉo si ogovarao2	bȉo je ogovarao2	bíli smo ogovarali2	bíli ste ogovarali2	bíli su ogovarali2
	Imperfect	ogovarah	ogovaraše	ogovaraše	ogovarasmo	ogovaraste	ogovarahu
Conditional I		ogovarao bih2	ogovarao bi2	ogovarao bi2	ogovarali bismo2	ogovarali biste2	ogovarali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih ogovarao2	bȉo bi ogovarao2	bȉo bi ogovarao2	bíli bismo ogovarali2	bíli biste ogovarali2	bíli bi ogovarali2
Imperative		—	ogovaraj	—	ogovarajmo	ogovarajte	—
Active past participle		ogovarao m / ogovarala f / ogovaralo n			ogovarali m / ogovarale f / ogovarala n
Passive past participle		ogovaran m / ogovarana f / ogovarano n			ogovarani m / ogovarane f / ogovarana 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.

References

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