pridobivati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pridobǐːʋati/
• Hyphenation: pri‧do‧bi‧va‧ti

Verb

pridobívati impf (Cyrillic spelling придоби́вати)

1. (transitive) to win over, charm (somebody)
2. (transitive) to acquire, obtain

Conjugation

Conjugation of pridobivati

Infinitive: pridobivati		Present verbal adverb: pridobívajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: pridobívānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pridobivam	pridobivaš	pridobiva	pridobivamo	pridobivate	pridobivaju
Future	Future I	pridobivat ću1 pridobivaću	pridobivat ćeš1 pridobivaćeš	pridobivat će1 pridobivaće	pridobivat ćemo1 pridobivaćemo	pridobivat ćete1 pridobivaćete	pridobivat će1 pridobivaće
	Future II	bȕdēm pridobivao2	bȕdēš pridobivao2	bȕdē pridobivao2	bȕdēmo pridobivali2	bȕdēte pridobivali2	bȕdū pridobivali2
Past	Perfect	pridobivao sam2	pridobivao si2	pridobivao je2	pridobivali smo2	pridobivali ste2	pridobivali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pridobivao2	bȉo si pridobivao2	bȉo je pridobivao2	bíli smo pridobivali2	bíli ste pridobivali2	bíli su pridobivali2
	Imperfect	pridobivah	pridobivaše	pridobivaše	pridobivasmo	pridobivaste	pridobivahu
Conditional I		pridobivao bih2	pridobivao bi2	pridobivao bi2	pridobivali bismo2	pridobivali biste2	pridobivali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pridobivao2	bȉo bi pridobivao2	bȉo bi pridobivao2	bíli bismo pridobivali2	bíli biste pridobivali2	bíli bi pridobivali2
Imperative		—	pridobivaj	—	pridobivajmo	pridobivajte	—
Active past participle		pridobivao m / pridobivala f / pridobivalo n			pridobivali m / pridobivale f / pridobivala n
Passive past participle		pridobivan m / pridobivana f / pridobivano n			pridobivani m / pridobivane f / pridobivana 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

• pridòbiti pf

Further reading

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