oklevati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• oklijévati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oklěːʋati/
• Hyphenation: o‧kle‧va‧ti

Verb

oklévati impf (Cyrillic spelling окле́вати)

1. to hesitate, vacillate

Conjugation

Conjugation of oklevati

Infinitive: oklevati		Present verbal adverb: oklévajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: oklévānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		oklevam	oklevaš	okleva	oklevamo	oklevate	oklevaju
Future	Future I	oklevat ću1 oklevaću	oklevat ćeš1 oklevaćeš	oklevat će1 oklevaće	oklevat ćemo1 oklevaćemo	oklevat ćete1 oklevaćete	oklevat će1 oklevaće
	Future II	bȕdēm oklevao2	bȕdēš oklevao2	bȕdē oklevao2	bȕdēmo oklevali2	bȕdēte oklevali2	bȕdū oklevali2
Past	Perfect	oklevao sam2	oklevao si2	oklevao je2	oklevali smo2	oklevali ste2	oklevali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam oklevao2	bȉo si oklevao2	bȉo je oklevao2	bíli smo oklevali2	bíli ste oklevali2	bíli su oklevali2
	Imperfect	oklevah	oklevaše	oklevaše	oklevasmo	oklevaste	oklevahu
Conditional I		oklevao bih2	oklevao bi2	oklevao bi2	oklevali bismo2	oklevali biste2	oklevali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih oklevao2	bȉo bi oklevao2	bȉo bi oklevao2	bíli bismo oklevali2	bíli biste oklevali2	bíli bi oklevali2
Imperative		—	oklevaj	—	oklevajmo	oklevajte	—
Active past participle		oklevao m / oklevala f / oklevalo n			oklevali m / oklevale f / oklevala 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.