polagati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /polǎːɡati/
• Hyphenation: po‧la‧ga‧ti

Verb

polágati impf (Cyrillic spelling пола́гати)

1. imperfective form of polòžiti

Conjugation

Conjugation of polagati

Infinitive: polagati		Present verbal adverb: polážūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: polágānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		polažem	polažeš	polaže	polažemo	polažete	polažu
Future	Future I	polagat ću1 polagaću	polagat ćeš1 polagaćeš	polagat će1 polagaće	polagat ćemo1 polagaćemo	polagat ćete1 polagaćete	polagat će1 polagaće
	Future II	bȕdēm polagao2	bȕdēš polagao2	bȕdē polagao2	bȕdēmo polagali2	bȕdēte polagali2	bȕdū polagali2
Past	Perfect	polagao sam2	polagao si2	polagao je2	polagali smo2	polagali ste2	polagali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam polagao2	bȉo si polagao2	bȉo je polagao2	bíli smo polagali2	bíli ste polagali2	bíli su polagali2
	Imperfect	polagah	polagaše	polagaše	polagasmo	polagaste	polagahu
Conditional I		polagao bih2	polagao bi2	polagao bi2	polagali bismo2	polagali biste2	polagali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih polagao2	bȉo bi polagao2	bȉo bi polagao2	bíli bismo polagali2	bíli biste polagali2	bíli bi polagali2
Imperative		—	polaži	—	polažimo	polažite	—
Active past participle		polagao m / polagala f / polagalo n			polagali m / polagale f / polagala n
Passive past participle		polagan m / polagana f / polagano n			polagani m / polagane f / polagana 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

• polòžiti pf

References

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