mirovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From mȋr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mirǒʋati/
• Hyphenation: mi‧ro‧va‧ti

Verb

miròvati impf (Cyrillic spelling миро̀вати)

1. (intransitive) to be still, stay put

   miruj! ― be still!

   moraš mirovati dok dođe liječnik ― you must stay still till the physician arrives

2. (intransitive) to rest, to become inactive

Conjugation

Conjugation of mirovati

Infinitive: mirovati		Present verbal adverb: mìrujūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: miròvānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		mirujem	miruješ	miruje	mirujemo	mirujete	miruju
Future	Future I	mirovat ću1 mirovaću	mirovat ćeš1 mirovaćeš	mirovat će1 mirovaće	mirovat ćemo1 mirovaćemo	mirovat ćete1 mirovaćete	mirovat će1 mirovaće
	Future II	bȕdēm mirovao2	bȕdēš mirovao2	bȕdē mirovao2	bȕdēmo mirovali2	bȕdēte mirovali2	bȕdū mirovali2
Past	Perfect	mirovao sam2	mirovao si2	mirovao je2	mirovali smo2	mirovali ste2	mirovali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam mirovao2	bȉo si mirovao2	bȉo je mirovao2	bíli smo mirovali2	bíli ste mirovali2	bíli su mirovali2
	Imperfect	mirovah	mirovaše	mirovaše	mirovasmo	mirovaste	mirovahu
Conditional I		mirovao bih2	mirovao bi2	mirovao bi2	mirovali bismo2	mirovali biste2	mirovali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih mirovao2	bȉo bi mirovao2	bȉo bi mirovao2	bíli bismo mirovali2	bíli biste mirovali2	bíli bi mirovali2
Imperative		—	miruj	—	mirujmo	mirujte	—
Active past participle		mirovao m / mirovala f / mirovalo n			mirovali m / mirovale f / mirovala 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.

References

• “mirovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025