progovarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /proɡoʋǎːrati/
Hyphenation: pro‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

progovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling прогова́рати)

(intransitive) to start to talk, speak (usually of a child, or a silent person)

Conjugation

Conjugation of progovarati

Infinitive: progovarati		Present verbal adverb: progovárajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: progovárānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		progovaram	progovaraš	progovara	progovaramo	progovarate	progovaraju
Future	Future I	progovarat ću¹ progovaraću	progovarat ćeš¹ progovaraćeš	progovarat će¹ progovaraće	progovarat ćemo¹ progovaraćemo	progovarat ćete¹ progovaraćete	progovarat će¹ progovaraće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm progovarao²	bȕdēš progovarao²	bȕdē progovarao²	bȕdēmo progovarali²	bȕdēte progovarali²	bȕdū progovarali²
Past	Perfect	progovarao sam²	progovarao si²	progovarao je²	progovarali smo²	progovarali ste²	progovarali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam progovarao²	bȉo si progovarao²	bȉo je progovarao²	bíli smo progovarali²	bíli ste progovarali²	bíli su progovarali²
	Imperfect	progovarah	progovaraše	progovaraše	progovarasmo	progovaraste	progovarahu
Conditional I		progovarao bih²	progovarao bi²	progovarao bi²	progovarali bismo²	progovarali biste²	progovarali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih progovarao²	bȉo bi progovarao²	bȉo bi progovarao²	bíli bismo progovarali²	bíli biste progovarali²	bíli bi progovarali²
Imperative		—	progovaraj	—	progovarajmo	progovarajte	—
Active past participle		progovarao m / progovarala f / progovaralo n			progovarali m / progovarale f / progovarala 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

progovòriti pf