dočekati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

do- +‎ čekati

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dǒtʃekati/
Hyphenation: do‧če‧ka‧ti

Verb

dòčekati pf (Cyrillic spelling до̀чекати)

(transitive) to welcome, receive, greet
(transitive) to live long enough to see that what one waited for happen or came true
(reflexive) to land, fall safely (on one's feet, of a person or animal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dočekati

Infinitive: dočekati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: dòčekāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		dočekam	dočekaš	dočeka	dočekamo	dočekate	dočekaju
Future	Future I	dočekat ću¹ dočekaću	dočekat ćeš¹ dočekaćeš	dočekat će¹ dočekaće	dočekat ćemo¹ dočekaćemo	dočekat ćete¹ dočekaćete	dočekat će¹ dočekaće
Future	Future II	budem dočekao²	budeš dočekao²	bude dočekao²	budemo dočekali²	budete dočekali²	budu dočekali²
Past	Perfect	dočekao sam²	dočekao si²	dočekao je²	dočekali smo²	dočekali ste²	dočekali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam dočekao²	bio si dočekao²	bio je dočekao²	bili smo dočekali²	bili ste dočekali²	bili su dočekali²
	Aorist	dočekah	dočeka	dočeka	dočekasmo	dočekaste	dočekaše
Conditional I		dočekao bih²	dočekao bi²	dočekao bi²	dočekali bismo²	dočekali biste²	dočekali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih dočekao²	bio bi dočekao²	bio bi dočekao²	bili bismo dočekali²	bili biste dočekali²	bili bi dočekali²
Imperative		—	dočekaj	—	dočekajmo	dočekajte	—
Active past participle		dočekao m / dočekala f / dočekalo n			dočekali m / dočekale f / dočekala n
Passive past participle		dočekan m / dočekana f / dočekano n			dočekani m / dočekane f / dočekana 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. * Note: The aorist and imperfect have nowadays fallen into disuse and as such they are found only in literary texts; routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

dočekívati impf

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