pozivam

Pozivam is the first-person singular present tense form of the verb pozivati in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. The core meaning is to invite someone to participate in an event or activity, or to call someone to do something. The verb can also express a broader sense of "calling on" or appealing to someone, such as inviting someone to take action or to refer to a source.

The verb has imperfective and perfective aspects. The imperfective form is pozivati, whose present tense forms are: ja pozivam, ti pozivaš, on/ona/ono poziva, mi pozivamo, vi pozivate, oni/one pozivaju. The perfective counterpart is pozvati; in present tense it does not have a typical form, and future meaning is usually expressed with a periphrastic construction (for example, pozvat ću te, pozvat ćeš te). The phraseology often depends on whether the action is viewed as ongoing/invitational or as a single act.

Common usages include inviting someone to an event (Pozivam te na koncert. I invite you to the concert), inviting in a formal or cordial register (Pozivam vas da prisustvujete. I invite you to attend), and, in some contexts, calling someone by phone or appealing to someone to take action (Pozivam vas da se odazovete. I urge you to respond). The noun form poziv means invitation or call, and related terms include pozivnica (invitation card) and pozivni broj (calling code). The phrase pozivati se na expresses citing or appealing to a source, for example pozivati se na Ustav (to appeal to the Constitution).