protiviti

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /protǐːʋiti/
• Hyphenation: pro‧ti‧vi‧ti

Verb

protíviti impf (Cyrillic spelling проти́вити)

1. (reflexive) to oppose, protest
2. (reflexive) to disobey, defy

Conjugation

Conjugation of protiviti

Infinitive: protiviti		Present verbal adverb: protívēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: protívljēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		protivim	protiviš	protivi	protivimo	protivite	protive
Future	Future I	protivit ću1 protiviću	protivit ćeš1 protivićeš	protivit će1 protiviće	protivit ćemo1 protivićemo	protivit ćete1 protivićete	protivit će1 protiviće
	Future II	bȕdēm protivio2	bȕdēš protivio2	bȕdē protivio2	bȕdēmo protivili2	bȕdēte protivili2	bȕdū protivili2
Past	Perfect	protivio sam2	protivio si2	protivio je2	protivili smo2	protivili ste2	protivili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam protivio2	bȉo si protivio2	bȉo je protivio2	bíli smo protivili2	bíli ste protivili2	bíli su protivili2
	Imperfect	protivljah	protivljaše	protivljaše	protivljasmo	protivljaste	protivljahu
Conditional I		protivio bih2	protivio bi2	protivio bi2	protivili bismo2	protivili biste2	protivili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih protivio2	bȉo bi protivio2	bȉo bi protivio2	bíli bismo protivili2	bíli biste protivili2	bíli bi protivili2
Imperative		—	protivi	—	protivimo	protivite	—
Active past participle		protivio m / protivila f / protivilo n			protivili m / protivile f / protivila 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.

Further reading

• “protiviti” in Hrvatski jezični portal