verovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• vjȅrovati (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From vȅra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋêroʋati/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ro‧va‧ti

Verb

vȅrovati impf (Cyrillic spelling ве̏ровати)

1. to believe + u (“in”)

   Ne verujem u Boga — I don't believe in God.

2. (intransitive) to trust (+ dative)

   Ne verujem mu — I don't trust him.

3. (intransitive) to hold (something as true)

   Nekad se verovalo da je Zemlja ravna ploča — It used to be held that Earth was flat.

Conjugation

Conjugation of verovati

infinitive		verovati
present verbal adverb		vȅrujūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		vȅrovānje
		singular			plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present		verujem	veruješ	veruje	verujemo	verujete	veruju
future	future I	verovat ću1 verovaću	verovat ćeš1 verovaćeš	verovat će1 verovaće	verovat ćemo1 verovaćemo	verovat ćete1 verovaćete	verovat ćē1 verovaće
	future II	bȕdēm verovao2	bȕdēš verovao2	bȕdē verovao2	bȕdēmo verovali2	bȕdēte verovali2	bȕdū verovali2
past	perfect	verovao sam2	verovao si2	verovao je2	verovali smo2	verovali ste2	verovali su2
	pluperfect3	bȉo sam verovao2	bȉo si verovao2	bȉo je verovao2	bíli smo verovali2	bíli ste verovali2	bíli su verovali2
	imperfect	verovah	verovaše	verovaše	verovasmo	verovaste	verovahu
conditional	conditional I	verovao bih2	verovao bi2	verovao bi2	verovali bismo2	verovali biste2	verovali bi2
	conditional II4	bȉo bih verovao2	bȉo bi verovao2	bȉo bi verovao2	bíli bismo verovali2	bíli biste verovali2	bíli bi verovali2
imperative		—	veruj	—	verujmo	verujte	—
active past participle		verovao m / verovala f / verovalo n			verovali m / verovale f / verovala 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.

Related terms

• pòverovati pf