pozvati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pozъvati. Compare Czech pozvat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒzʋati/
• Hyphenation: po‧zva‧ti

Verb

pòzvati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀звати)

1. (transitive) to call
2. (transitive) to invite
3. (transitive) to summon, convene, convoke
4. (reflexive) to refer, relate, allude

Conjugation

Conjugation of pozvati

Infinitive: pozvati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: pòzvāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pozovem	pozoveš	pozove	pozovemo	pozovete	pozovu
Future	Future I	pozvat ću1 pozvaću	pozvat ćeš1 pozvaćeš	pozvat će1 pozvaće	pozvat ćemo1 pozvaćemo	pozvat ćete1 pozvaćete	pozvat će1 pozvaće
	Future II	bȕdēm pozvao2	bȕdēš pozvao2	bȕdē pozvao2	bȕdēmo pozvali2	bȕdēte pozvali2	bȕdū pozvali2
Past	Perfect	pozvao sam2	pozvao si2	pozvao je2	pozvali smo2	pozvali ste2	pozvali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pozvao2	bȉo si pozvao2	bȉo je pozvao2	bíli smo pozvali2	bíli ste pozvali2	bíli su pozvali2
	Aorist	pozvah	pozva	pozva	pozvasmo	pozvaste	pozvaše
Conditional I		pozvao bih2	pozvao bi2	pozvao bi2	pozvali bismo2	pozvali biste2	pozvali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pozvao2	bȉo bi pozvao2	bȉo bi pozvao2	bíli bismo pozvali2	bíli biste pozvali2	bíli bi pozvali2
Imperative		—	pozovi	—	pozovimo	pozovite	—
Active past participle		pozvao m / pozvala f / pozvalo n			pozvali m / pozvale f / pozvala n
Passive past participle		pozvan m / pozvana f / pozvano n			pozvani m / pozvane f / pozvana 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

• pozívati impf

Further reading

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