rovati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /rǒʋati/
Hyphenation: ro‧va‧ti

Verb

ròvati impf (Cyrillic spelling ро̀вати)

(transitive) to root, dig up with snot
(transitive) to rummage, search
(intransitive) to undermine, plot, scheme

Conjugation

Conjugation of rovati

Infinitive: rovati		Present verbal adverb: rȕjūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: ròvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		rujem	ruješ	ruje	rujemo	rujete	ruju
Future	Future I	rovat ću¹ rovaću	rovat ćeš¹ rovaćeš	rovat će¹ rovaće	rovat ćemo¹ rovaćemo	rovat ćete¹ rovaćete	rovat će¹ rovaće
Future	Future II	budem rovao²	budeš rovao²	bude rovao²	budemo rovali²	budete rovali²	budu rovali²
Past	Perfect	rovao sam²	rovao si²	rovao je²	rovali smo²	rovali ste²	rovali su²
	Pluperfect³	bio sam rovao²	bio si rovao²	bio je rovao²	bili smo rovali²	bili ste rovali²	bili su rovali²
	Imperfect	rovah	rovaše	rovaše	rovasmo	rovaste	rovahu
Conditional I		rovao bih²	rovao bi²	rovao bi²	rovali bismo²	rovali biste²	rovali bi²
Conditional II		bio bih rovao²	bio bi rovao²	bio bi rovao²	bili bismo rovali²	bili biste rovali²	bili bi rovali²
Imperative		—	ruj	—	rujmo	rujte	—
Active past participle		rovao m / rovala f / rovalo n			rovali m / rovale f / rovala n
Passive past participle		rovan m / rovana f / rovano n			rovani m / rovane f / rovana 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.

Derived terms

izròvati
proròvati

razròvati