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I am just beginning to learn Croatian and I am having trouble understanding the conjugation of verbs. Could someone please tell me the conjugations for I; you; he,she,she; we; you(plural); they?
If you could just do a couple different verbs and the conjugations I would be grateful. If you could also explain the differences between -ati; eti; etc... that would be great! Hvala!

Uuhh.

First of all, welcome! It's always nice to see someone learning Croatian

Basically, you have 2 main types of verbs: the one that ends in -ti and the other that ends in -ći. The first category (-ti) can be divided into subcategories like verbs ending in -ati, -(j)eti, -iti, -uti, -ovati, etc.; the second category stays as it is and has no subdivisions. The verbs that end in -ati (like hodati [to walk]) will usually be conjugated like this:

1. ja hodam
2. ti hodaš
3. on/ona/ono hoda

1. mi hodamo
2. vi hodate
3. oni/one/ona hodaju

with a few exceptions (which will be explained in the proper "paragraph").

Next, we have those that end in -iti (eg. raditi [to work]) and -(j)eti (eg. vidjeti [to see]):

1. ja radim/vidim
2. ti radiš/vidiš
3. on/ona/ono radi/vidi

1. mi radimo/vidimo
2. vi radite/vidite
3. oni/one/ona rade/vide

So far no exceptions have crossed my mind, so my guess is that they are all regular, ie. take these endings. But, the verbs that end in -čati, -žati and sometimes -jati (eg. trčati [to run], držati [to hold], stajati [to stand]) are conjugated like this (stajati -> stojim is a bit irregular, the others are regular. I think you'll just have to learn this by heart.).


The verbs that end in -uti (eg. krenuti [to start moving])

1. ja krenem
2. ti kreneš
3. on/ona/ono krene

1. mi krenemo
2. vi krenete
3. oni/one/ona krenu

Also, some verbs that end in -sati, -zati, -kati (probably some more) take these endings, but with a slight change in the stem in every person: pisati [to write] -> pišem, rezati [to cut] -> režem, skakati [to jump] -> skačem.

At the end, the ones that end in -ovati, -ivati belong to the last group (-em, -eš, -e,...), but they also undergo a change in the stem in every person: stanovati [to reside] stanujem, pokazivati [to show] -> pokazujem. Some (not all!) verbs that end in -avati (eg. davati [to give] -> dajem, but pokušavati [to try] -> pokušavam) discard the whole ending, take a -j and then conjugate as krenuti.


As for -ći verbs, they, I dare say, always have some changes in the stem. However, after the changes, I think that each of them belongs to the last group. (eg. ići [to go])

1. ja idem
2. ti ideš
3. on/ona/ono ide

1. mi idemo
2. vi idete
3. oni/one/ona idu


To sum up, the first person singular has the answer to all your questions Other persons undergo the same changes in the stem (if there are any) as the 1.sg. I hope this helped a bit (and didn't scare you off )!

Easier than Czech verbs, I'll tell you what.

I suddenly felt like I want to learn Croatian again when I browsed this and some other threads in this forum!
Thank you for this good explanation of how to conjugate the Croatian verbs.

Thanks very much, that is a great help!
I have been looking for a list/table of irregular Croatian verbs on-line and can't find anything. Do you know of any?