okolišati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /okolǐʃati/
• Hyphenation: o‧ko‧li‧ša‧ti

Verb

okolìšati impf (Cyrillic spelling околѝшати)

1. (intransitive) to beat around the bush (delay/avoid talking about something)
2. (obsolete, intransitive) to go by a roundabout way; go around

Conjugation

Conjugation of okolišati

Infinitive: okolišati		Present verbal adverb: okolìšajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: okolìšānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		okolišam	okolišaš	okoliša	okolišamo	okolišate	okolišaju
Future	Future I	okolišat ću1 okolišaću	okolišat ćeš1 okolišaćeš	okolišat će1 okolišaće	okolišat ćemo1 okolišaćemo	okolišat ćete1 okolišaćete	okolišat će1 okolišaće
	Future II	bȕdēm okolišao2	bȕdēš okolišao2	bȕdē okolišao2	bȕdēmo okolišali2	bȕdēte okolišali2	bȕdū okolišali2
Past	Perfect	okolišao sam2	okolišao si2	okolišao je2	okolišali smo2	okolišali ste2	okolišali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam okolišao2	bȉo si okolišao2	bȉo je okolišao2	bíli smo okolišali2	bíli ste okolišali2	bíli su okolišali2
	Imperfect	okolišah	okolišaše	okolišaše	okolišasmo	okolišaste	okolišahu
Conditional I		okolišao bih2	okolišao bi2	okolišao bi2	okolišali bismo2	okolišali biste2	okolišali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih okolišao2	bȉo bi okolišao2	bȉo bi okolišao2	bíli bismo okolišali2	bíli biste okolišali2	bíli bi okolišali2
Imperative		—	okolišaj	—	okolišajmo	okolišajte	—
Active past participle		okolišao m / okolišala f / okolišalo n			okolišali m / okolišale f / okolišala 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.