osnovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /osnǒʋati/
• Hyphenation: o‧sno‧va‧ti

Verb

osnòvati pf (Cyrillic spelling осно̀вати)

1. (transitive) to found, establish

Conjugation

Infinitive: osnovati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: osnòvāvši		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		osnujem	osnuješ	osnuje	osnujemo	osnujete	osnuju
Future	Future I	osnovat ću1 osnovaću	osnovat ćeš1 osnovaćeš	osnovat će1 osnovaće	osnovat ćemo1 osnovaćemo	osnovat ćete1 osnovaćete	osnovat će1 osnovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm osnovao2	bȕdēš osnovao2	bȕdē osnovao2	bȕdēmo osnovali2	bȕdēte osnovali2	bȕdū osnovali2
Past	Perfect	osnovao sam2	osnovao si2	osnovao je2	osnovali smo2	osnovali ste2	osnovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam osnovao2	bȉo si osnovao2	bȉo je osnovao2	bíli smo osnovali2	bíli ste osnovali2	bíli su osnovali2
	Aorist	osnovah	osnova	osnova	osnovasmo	osnovaste	osnovaše
Conditional I		osnovao bih2	osnovao bi2	osnovao bi2	osnovali bismo2	osnovali biste2	osnovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih osnovao2	bȉo bi osnovao2	bȉo bi osnovao2	bíli bismo osnovali2	bíli biste osnovali2	bíli bi osnovali2
Imperative		—	osnuj	—	osnujmo	osnujte	—
Active past participle		osnovao m / osnovala f / osnovalo n			osnovali m / osnovale f / osnovala n
Passive past participle		osnovan m / osnovana f / osnovano n			osnovani m / osnovane f / osnovana 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.

Conjugation of osnovati

Related terms

• osnívati impf