rovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /rǒʋati/
Hyphenation: ro‧va‧ti

Verb

ròvati impf (Cyrillic spelling ро̀вати)

(transitive) to root, dig up with snot
(transitive) to rummage, search
(intransitive) to undermine, plot, scheme

Conjugation

Conjugation of rovati

Infinitive: rovati		Present verbal adverb: rȕjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ròvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		rujem	ruješ	ruje	rujemo	rujete	ruju
Future	Future I	rovat ću¹ rovaću	rovat ćeš¹ rovaćeš	rovat će¹ rovaće	rovat ćemo¹ rovaćemo	rovat ćete¹ rovaćete	rovat će¹ rovaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm rovao²	bȕdēš rovao²	bȕdē rovao²	bȕdēmo rovali²	bȕdēte rovali²	bȕdū rovali²
Past	Perfect	rovao sam²	rovao si²	rovao je²	rovali smo²	rovali ste²	rovali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam rovao²	bȉo si rovao²	bȉo je rovao²	bíli smo rovali²	bíli ste rovali²	bíli su rovali²
	Imperfect	rovah	rovaše	rovaše	rovasmo	rovaste	rovahu
Conditional I		rovao bih²	rovao bi²	rovao bi²	rovali bismo²	rovali biste²	rovali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih rovao²	bȉo bi rovao²	bȉo bi rovao²	bíli bismo rovali²	bíli biste rovali²	bíli bi rovali²
Imperative		—	ruj	—	rujmo	rujte	—
Active past participle		rovao m / rovala f / rovalo n			rovali m / rovale f / rovala n
Passive past participle		rovan m / rovana f / rovano n			rovani m / rovane f / rovana 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.

Derived terms

izròvati
proròvati
razròvati

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