pravdati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prâːʋdati/
• Hyphenation: prav‧da‧ti

Verb

prȃvdati impf (Cyrillic spelling пра̑вдати)

1. (transitive) to justify, excuse
2. (reflexive) to argue, quarrel

Conjugation

Conjugation of pravdati

Infinitive: pravdati		Present verbal adverb: prȃvdajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prȃvdānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pravdam	pravdaš	pravda	pravdamo	pravdate	pravdaju
Future	Future I	pravdat ću1 pravdaću	pravdat ćeš1 pravdaćeš	pravdat će1 pravdaće	pravdat ćemo1 pravdaćemo	pravdat ćete1 pravdaćete	pravdat će1 pravdaće
	Future II	bȕdēm pravdao2	bȕdēš pravdao2	bȕdē pravdao2	bȕdēmo pravdali2	bȕdēte pravdali2	bȕdū pravdali2
Past	Perfect	pravdao sam2	pravdao si2	pravdao je2	pravdali smo2	pravdali ste2	pravdali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pravdao2	bȉo si pravdao2	bȉo je pravdao2	bíli smo pravdali2	bíli ste pravdali2	bíli su pravdali2
	Imperfect	pravdah	pravdaše	pravdaše	pravdasmo	pravdaste	pravdahu
Conditional I		pravdao bih2	pravdao bi2	pravdao bi2	pravdali bismo2	pravdali biste2	pravdali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pravdao2	bȉo bi pravdao2	bȉo bi pravdao2	bíli bismo pravdali2	bíli biste pravdali2	bíli bi pravdali2
Imperative		—	pravdaj	—	pravdajmo	pravdajte	—
Active past participle		pravdao m / pravdala f / pravdalo n			pravdali m / pravdale f / pravdala n
Passive past participle		pravdan m / pravdana f / pravdano n			pravdani m / pravdane f / pravdana 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

• òprāvdati