otklanjati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒtklaɲati/
• Hyphenation: ot‧kla‧nja‧ti

Verb

òtklanjati impf (Cyrillic spelling о̀тклањати)

1. (transitive) to eliminate (danger), prevent (accident)
2. (transitive) to reject, refuse (possibility, proposal etc.)
3. (intransitive) to deviate, differ

Conjugation

Conjugation of otklanjati

Infinitive: otklanjati		Present verbal adverb: òtklanjajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: òtklanjānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		otklanjam	otklanjaš	otklanja	otklanjamo	otklanjate	otklanjaju
Future	Future I	otklanjat ću1 otklanjaću	otklanjat ćeš1 otklanjaćeš	otklanjat će1 otklanjaće	otklanjat ćemo1 otklanjaćemo	otklanjat ćete1 otklanjaćete	otklanjat ćē1 otklanjaće
	Future II	bȕdēm otklanjao2	bȕdēš otklanjao2	bȕdē otklanjao2	bȕdēmo otklanjali2	bȕdēte otklanjali2	bȕdū otklanjali2
Past	Perfect	otklanjao sam2	otklanjao si2	otklanjao je2	otklanjali smo2	otklanjali ste2	otklanjali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam otklanjao2	bȉo si otklanjao2	bȉo je otklanjao2	bíli smo otklanjali2	bíli ste otklanjali2	bíli su otklanjali2
	Imperfect	otklanjah	otklanjaše	otklanjaše	otklanjasmo	otklanjaste	otklanjahu
Conditional I		otklanjao bih2	otklanjao bi2	otklanjao bi2	otklanjali bismo2	otklanjali biste2	otklanjali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih otklanjao2	bȉo bi otklanjao2	bȉo bi otklanjao2	bíli bismo otklanjali2	bíli biste otklanjali2	bíli bi otklanjali2
Imperative		—	otklanjaj	—	otklanjajmo	otklanjajte	—
Active past participle		otklanjao m / otklanjala f / otklanjalo n			otklanjali m / otklanjale f / otklanjala n
Passive past participle		otklanjan m / otklanjana f / otklanjano n			otklanjani m / otklanjane f / otklanjana 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

• otklòniti pf

Further reading

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