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potrebovati
potrebovati
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
pòtrebovati impf (Cyrillic spelling по̀требовати)
- (transitive, literary) to need
Conjugation
Conjugation of potrebovati
| Infinitive: potrebovati | Present verbal adverb: pòtrebujūći | Past verbal adverb: — | Verbal noun: pòtrebovānje | ||||
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Verbal forms | ja | ti | on / ona / ono | mi | vi | oni / one / ona | |
| Present | potrebujem | potrebuješ | potrebuje | potrebujemo | potrebujete | potrebuju | |
| Future | Future I | potrebovat ću2 potrebovaću |
potrebovat ćeš2 potrebovaćeš |
potrebovat će2 potrebovaće |
potrebovat ćemo2 potrebovaćemo |
potrebovat ćete2 potrebovaćete |
potrebovat će2 potrebovaće |
| Future II | budem potrebovao1 | budeš potrebovao1 | bude potrebovao1 | budemo potrebovali1 | budete potrebovali1 | budu potrebovali1 | |
| Past | Perfect | potrebovao sam1 | potrebovao si1 | potrebovao je1 | potrebovali smo1 | potrebovali ste1 | potrebovali su1 |
| Pluperfect | bio sam potrebovao1 | bio si potrebovao1 | bio je potrebovao1 | bili smo potrebovali1 | bili ste potrebovali1 | bili su potrebovali1 | |
| Imperfect | potrebovah | potrebova | potrebova | potrebovasmo | potrebovaste | potrebovaše | |
| Conditional I | potrebovao bih1 | potrebovao bi1 | potrebovao bi1 | potrebovali bismo1 | potrebovali biste1 | potrebovali bi1 | |
| Conditional II | bio bih potrebovao1 | bio bi potrebovao1 | bio bi potrebovao1 | bili bismo potrebovali1 | bili biste potrebovali1 | bili bi potrebovali1 | |
| Imperative | — | potrebuj | — | potrebujmo | potrebujte | — | |
| Active past participle | potrebovao m / potrebovala f / potrebovalo n | potrebovali m / potrebovale f / potrebovala n | |||||
| 1 For the masculine; agent of feminine or neuter gender would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and the auxiliary verb, respectively. 2 Standard Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. | |||||||
Slovene
Etymology
From po- + *trěba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /potreboʋati/
- Hyphenation: po‧tre‧bo‧va‧ti
Verb
potrebováti impf (first-person singular present potrebújem, past active participle potrebovàl)
- (transitive) to need
Conjugation
Conjugation of potrebováti
| infinitive | potrebováti | |
|---|---|---|
| supine | potrebovàt | |
| verbal noun | potrebovánje | |
| participles | adjectival | adverbial |
| present active | potrebujóč | — |
| past active | potrebovàl | — |
| past passive | potrebován | — |
| present indicative | imperative | |
| 1st singular | potrebújem | — |
| 2nd singular | potrebúješ | potrebúj |
| 3rd singular | potrebúje | — |
| 1st dual | potrebújeva | potrebújva |
| 2nd dual | potrebújeta | potrebújta |
| 3rd dual | potrebújeta | — |
| 1st plural | potrebújemo | potrebújmo |
| 2nd plural | potrebújete | potrebújte |
| 3rd plural | potrebújejo | — |
| Compound tenses (see potrebovàl for all forms) | ||
| past indic. | sem potrebovàl | |
| pluperfect indic. | sem bil potrebovàl | |
| future indic. | bom potrebovàl | |
| present cond. | bi potrebovàl | |
| past cond. | bi bil potrebovàl | |