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 wait for/until (something specified)
(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	bȕdēm dočekao²	bȕdēš dočekao²	bȕdē dočekao²	bȕdēmo dočekali²	bȕdēte dočekali²	bȕdū 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 II⁴		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. 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 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