predavati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *perdavati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /predǎːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧da‧va‧ti

Verb

predávati impf (Cyrillic spelling преда́вати)

  1. (transitive) to lecture on, teach
  2. (transitive) to deliver, hand over (package, letter, evidence etc.)
  3. (transitive, reflexive) to surrender, give up
  4. (reflexive) to devote oneself to
  5. (reflexive) to submit, yield, acquiesce

Conjugation

Conjugation of predavati
infinitive predavati
present verbal adverb prèdājūći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun predávānje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present predajem predaješ predaje predajemo predajete predaju
future future I predavat ću1
predavaću
predavat ćeš1
predavaćeš
predavat će1
predavaće
predavat ćemo1
predavaćemo
predavat ćete1
predavaćete
predavat ćē1
predavaće
future II bȕdēm predavao2 bȕdēš predavao2 bȕdē predavao2 bȕdēmo predavali2 bȕdēte predavali2 bȕdū predavali2
past perfect predavao sam2 predavao si2 predavao je2 predavali smo2 predavali ste2 predavali su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam predavao2 bȉo si predavao2 bȉo je predavao2 bíli smo predavali2 bíli ste predavali2 bíli su predavali2
imperfect predavah predavaše predavaše predavasmo predavaste predavahu
conditional conditional I predavao bih2 predavao bi2 predavao bi2 predavali bismo2 predavali biste2 predavali bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih predavao2 bȉo bi predavao2 bȉo bi predavao2 bíli bismo predavali2 bíli biste predavali2 bíli bi predavali2
imperative predaj predajmo predajte
active past participle predavao m / predavala f / predavalo n predavali m / predavale f / predavala n
passive past participle predavan m / predavana f / predavano n predavani m / predavane f / predavana 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.

Further reading

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