Dolazi

Dolazi is a common verb form in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian that means “comes” or “arrives.” It is the third-person singular present tense of the imperfective verb dolaziti, which denotes coming or arriving in general. Dolaziti is closely related to doći, the perfective counterpart meaning “to come,” and together they cover the idea of approaching or reaching a destination.

In standard varieties, the present-tense conjugation for dolaziti is: ja dolazim, ti dolaziš, on dolazi, mi dolazimo, vi dolazite, oni dolaze. Dolazi is used for a single subject in present time, and it can describe people, objects, or events that are coming or arriving. The form also appears in figurative phrases, such as “Dolazi nova vlada” (A new government is coming) or “Zima dolazi” (Winter is coming).

Dolazi is a common building block in everyday speech and journalism, and it is used across the mentioned languages with minor regional variations in pronunciation and orthography. As an imperfective form, dolaziti often emphasizes the process or repetition of coming, while the perfective doći is used when the act of coming is completed or viewed as a single event.