upotrebljavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /upotrebʎǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: u‧po‧treb‧lja‧va‧ti

Verb

upotrebljávati impf (Cyrillic spelling употребља́вати)

1. (transitive) to use, utilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of upotrebljavati

Infinitive: upotrebljavati		Present verbal adverb: upotrebljávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: upotrebljávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		upotrebljavam	upotrebljavaš	upotrebljava	upotrebljavamo	upotrebljavate	upotrebljavaju
Future	Future I	upotrebljavat ću1 upotrebljavaću	upotrebljavat ćeš1 upotrebljavaćeš	upotrebljavat će1 upotrebljavaće	upotrebljavat ćemo1 upotrebljavaćemo	upotrebljavat ćete1 upotrebljavaćete	upotrebljavat ćē1 upotrebljavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm upotrebljavao2	bȕdēš upotrebljavao2	bȕdē upotrebljavao2	bȕdēmo upotrebljavali2	bȕdēte upotrebljavali2	bȕdū upotrebljavali2
Past	Perfect	upotrebljavao sam2	upotrebljavao si2	upotrebljavao je2	upotrebljavali smo2	upotrebljavali ste2	upotrebljavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam upotrebljavao2	bȉo si upotrebljavao2	bȉo je upotrebljavao2	bíli smo upotrebljavali2	bíli ste upotrebljavali2	bíli su upotrebljavali2
	Imperfect	upotrebljavah	upotrebljavaše	upotrebljavaše	upotrebljavasmo	upotrebljavaste	upotrebljavahu
Conditional I		upotrebljavao bih2	upotrebljavao bi2	upotrebljavao bi2	upotrebljavali bismo2	upotrebljavali biste2	upotrebljavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih upotrebljavao2	bȉo bi upotrebljavao2	bȉo bi upotrebljavao2	bíli bismo upotrebljavali2	bíli biste upotrebljavali2	bíli bi upotrebljavali2
Imperative		—	upotrebljavaj	—	upotrebljavajmo	upotrebljavajte	—
Active past participle		upotrebljavao m / upotrebljavala f / upotrebljavalo n			upotrebljavali m / upotrebljavale f / upotrebljavala n
Passive past participle		upotrebljavan m / upotrebljavana f / upotrebljavano n			upotrebljavani m / upotrebljavane f / upotrebljavana 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

• upotrijébiti / upotrébiti pf

Further reading

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