povjerovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• pòverovati (Ekavian)

Etymology

From po- +‎ vjerovati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒʋjeroʋati/
• Hyphenation: po‧vje‧ro‧va‧ti

Verb

pòvjerovati pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀вјеровати)

1. (ambitransitive) to come to believe, trust [with u (+ accusative) or dative]

   teško je povjerovati u to ― it's really hard to believe it

   teško mi je povjerovati u to ― I find that hard to believe

   skoro sam ti povjerovao! ― you almost had me!

Conjugation

Conjugation of povjerovati

infinitive		povjerovati
present verbal adverb		—
past verbal adverb		pòvjerovāvši
verbal noun		—
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		pòvjerujēm	pòvjerujēš	pòvjerujē	pòvjerujēmo	pòvjerujēte	pòvjerujū
future	future I	pòvjerovat ću1 pòvjerovaću	pòvjerovat ćeš1 pòvjerovaćeš	pòvjerovat će1 pòvjerovaće	pòvjerovat ćemo1 pòvjerovaćemo	pòvjerovat ćete1 pòvjerovaćete	pòvjerovat ćē1 pòvjerovaće
	future II	bȕdēm pòvjerovao2	bȕdēš pòvjerovao2	bȕdē pòvjerovao2	bȕdēmo pòvjerovali2	bȕdēte pòvjerovali2	bȕdū pòvjerovali2
past	perfect	pòvjerovao sam2	pòvjerovao si2	pòvjerovao je2	pòvjerovali smo2	pòvjerovali ste2	pòvjerovali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam pòvjerovao2	bȉo si pòvjerovao2	bȉo je pòvjerovao2	bíli smo pòvjerovali2	bíli ste pòvjerovali2	bíli su pòvjerovali2
	aorist	pòvjerovah	pȍvjerovā	pȍvjerovā	pòvjerovasmo	pòvjerovaste	pòvjerovaše
conditional	conditional I	pòvjerovao bih2	pòvjerovao bi2	pòvjerovao bi2	pòvjerovali bismo2	pòvjerovali biste2	pòvjerovali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih pòvjerovao2	bȉo bi pòvjerovao2	bȉo bi pòvjerovao2	bíli bismo pòvjerovali2	bíli biste pòvjerovali2	bíli bi pòvjerovali2
imperative		—	pòvjerūj	—	pòvjerūjmo	pòvjerūjte	—
active past participle		pòvjerovao m / pòvjerovala f / pòvjerovalo n			pòvjerovali m / pòvjerovale f / pòvjerovala 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.

Daničić (1925:194-195 (Акценти у глагола §84.)) has original length in active past participle: pòvjerovāl-a/-o/etc. Other sources provide forms with shortened -a-. Cf. vjerovati.

Related terms

• vjerovati impf

References

• “povjerovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• Даничић, Ђуро (1925), Милан Решетар, editor, Српски акценти‎^[1], Београд-Земун: Српска краљевска академија