odati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From o- +‎ dati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǒdati/
• Hyphenation: o‧da‧ti

Verb

òdati pf (Cyrillic spelling о̀дати)

1. (transitive) to reveal, disclose, give away (something previously hidden)
2. (transitive, reflexive) to betray, give away
3. (intransitive) to show, pay, bestow (respect, credit, honor, etc.)
4. (reflexive) to become addicted to (gambling, alcohol, vices etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of odati

Infinitive: odati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: òdāvši		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		odam	odaš	oda	odamo	odate	odaju
Future	Future I	odat ću1 odaću	odat ćeš1 odaćeš	odat će1 odaće	odat ćemo1 odaćemo	odat ćete1 odaćete	odat će1 odaće
	Future II	bȕdēm odao2	bȕdēš odao2	bȕdē odao2	bȕdēmo odali2	bȕdēte odali2	bȕdū odali2
Past	Perfect	odao sam2	odao si2	odao je2	odali smo2	odali ste2	odali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam odao2	bȉo si odao2	bȉo je odao2	bíli smo odali2	bíli ste odali2	bíli su odali2
	Aorist	odah	oda	oda	odasmo	odaste	odaše
Conditional I		odao bih2	odao bi2	odao bi2	odali bismo2	odali biste2	odali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih odao2	bȉo bi odao2	bȉo bi odao2	bíli bismo odali2	bíli biste odali2	bíli bi odali2
Imperative		—	odaj	—	odajmo	odajte	—
Active past participle		odao m / odala f / odalo n			odali m / odale f / odala n
Passive past participle		odan m / odana f / odano n			odani m / odane f / odana 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

• odávati impf

Further reading

• “odati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024