približavati

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pribliʒǎːʋati/
• Hyphenation: pri‧bli‧ža‧va‧ti

Verb

približávati impf (Cyrillic spelling приближа́вати)

1. (transitive) to bring closer
2. (reflexive) to approach, come closer, near

Conjugation

Conjugation of približavati

Infinitive: približavati		Present verbal adverb: približávajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: približávānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		približavam	približavaš	približava	približavamo	približavate	približavaju
Future	Future I	približavat ću1 približavaću	približavat ćeš1 približavaćeš	približavat će1 približavaće	približavat ćemo1 približavaćemo	približavat ćete1 približavaćete	približavat će1 približavaće
	Future II	bȕdēm približavao2	bȕdēš približavao2	bȕdē približavao2	bȕdēmo približavali2	bȕdēte približavali2	bȕdū približavali2
Past	Perfect	približavao sam2	približavao si2	približavao je2	približavali smo2	približavali ste2	približavali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam približavao2	bȉo si približavao2	bȉo je približavao2	bíli smo približavali2	bíli ste približavali2	bíli su približavali2
	Imperfect	približavah	približavaše	približavaše	približavasmo	približavaste	približavahu
Conditional I		približavao bih2	približavao bi2	približavao bi2	približavali bismo2	približavali biste2	približavali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih približavao2	bȉo bi približavao2	bȉo bi približavao2	bíli bismo približavali2	bíli biste približavali2	bíli bi približavali2
Imperative		—	približavaj	—	približavajmo	približavajte	—
Active past participle		približavao m / približavala f / približavalo n			približavali m / približavale f / približavala n
Passive past participle		približavan m / približavana f / približavano n			približavani m / približavane f / približavana 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

• priblížiti pf

Further reading

• “približavati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024