odgovarati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /odɡoʋǎːrati/
Hyphenation: od‧go‧va‧ra‧ti

Verb

odgovárati impf (Cyrillic spelling одгова́рати)

(intransitive) to answer, reply
(intransitive) to suit, fit
(intransitive) to correspond, match, equate
(intransitive) to be responsible for sth, answer for

Usage notes

Meanings suit, fit, match and correspond are calques of German entsprechen.

Conjugation

Conjugation of *odgovarati*
		singular			plural
infinitive		odgovarati
present verbal adverb		odgovárajūći
past verbal adverb		—
verbal noun		odgovárānje

		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd
present		odgovaram	odgovaraš	odgovara	odgovaramo	odgovarate	odgovaraju
future	future I	odgovarat ću¹ odgovaraću	odgovarat ćeš¹ odgovaraćeš	odgovarat će¹ odgovaraće	odgovarat ćemo¹ odgovaraćemo	odgovarat ćete¹ odgovaraćete	odgovarat ćē¹ odgovaraće
future	future II	bȕdēm odgovarao²	bȕdēš odgovarao²	bȕdē odgovarao²	bȕdēmo odgovarali²	bȕdēte odgovarali²	bȕdū odgovarali²
past	perfect	odgovarao sam²	odgovarao si²	odgovarao je²	odgovarali smo²	odgovarali ste²	odgovarali su²
	pluperfect³	bȉo sam odgovarao²	bȉo si odgovarao²	bȉo je odgovarao²	bíli smo odgovarali²	bíli ste odgovarali²	bíli su odgovarali²
	imperfect	odgovarah	odgovaraše	odgovaraše	odgovarasmo	odgovaraste	odgovarahu
conditional	conditional I	odgovarao bih²	odgovarao bi²	odgovarao bi²	odgovarali bismo²	odgovarali biste²	odgovarali bi²
conditional	conditional II⁴	bȉo bih odgovarao²	bȉo bi odgovarao²	bȉo bi odgovarao²	bíli bismo odgovarali²	bíli biste odgovarali²	bíli bi odgovarali²
imperative		—	odgovaraj	—	odgovarajmo	odgovarajte	—
active past participle		odgovarao m / odgovarala f / odgovaralo n			odgovarali m / odgovarale f / odgovarala n
passive past participle		odgovaran m / odgovarana f / odgovarano n			odgovarani m / odgovarane f / odgovarana 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

odgovóriti pf