vjerovati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): vȅrovati

Etymology

From vjȅra.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

vjȅrovati impf (Cyrillic spelling вје̏ровати)

1. to believe + u (“in”)

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

2. (intransitive) to trust, to believe (+ dative)

   Ne vjerujem mu — I don't trust him.

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

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of vjerovati

Infinitive: vjerovati		Present verbal adverb: vjȅrujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: vjȅrovānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		vjerujem	vjeruješ	vjeruje	vjerujemo	vjerujete	vjeruju
Future	Future I	vjerovat ću1 vjerovaću	vjerovat ćeš1 vjerovaćeš	vjerovat će1 vjerovaće	vjerovat ćemo1 vjerovaćemo	vjerovat ćete1 vjerovaćete	vjerovat će1 vjerovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm vjerovao2	bȕdēš vjerovao2	bȕdē vjerovao2	bȕdēmo vjerovali2	bȕdēte vjerovali2	bȕdū vjerovali2
Past	Perfect	vjerovao sam2	vjerovao si2	vjerovao je2	vjerovali smo2	vjerovali ste2	vjerovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam vjerovao2	bȉo si vjerovao2	bȉo je vjerovao2	bíli smo vjerovali2	bíli ste vjerovali2	bíli su vjerovali2
	Imperfect	vjerovah	vjerovaše	vjerovaše	vjerovasmo	vjerovaste	vjerovahu
Conditional I		vjerovao bih2	vjerovao bi2	vjerovao bi2	vjerovali bismo2	vjerovali biste2	vjerovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih vjerovao2	bȉo bi vjerovao2	bȉo bi vjerovao2	bíli bismo vjerovali2	bíli biste vjerovali2	bíli bi vjerovali2
Imperative		—	vjeruj	—	vjerujmo	vjerujte	—
Active past participle		vjerovao m / vjerovala f / vjerovalo n			vjerovali m / vjerovale f / vjerovala 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

• pòvjerovati pf

See also

• misliti