kretati

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krętati. Cognate with Polish krzątać.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /krěːtati/
Hyphenation: kre‧ta‧ti

Verb edit

krétati impf (Cyrillic spelling кре́тати)

(reflexive) to move
(reflexive) to range
(intransitive) to begin, start (movement or activity)

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of kretati

Infinitive: kretati		Present verbal adverb: kréćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: krétānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		krećem	krećeš	kreće	krećemo	krećete	kreću
Future	Future I	kretat ću¹ kretaću	kretat ćeš¹ kretaćeš	kretat će¹ kretaće	kretat ćemo¹ kretaćemo	kretat ćete¹ kretaćete	kretat će¹ kretaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm kretao²	bȕdēš kretao²	bȕdē kretao²	bȕdēmo kretali²	bȕdēte kretali²	bȕdū kretali²
Past	Perfect	kretao sam²	kretao si²	kretao je²	kretali smo²	kretali ste²	kretali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam kretao²	bȉo si kretao²	bȉo je kretao²	bíli smo kretali²	bíli ste kretali²	bíli su kretali²
	Imperfect	kretah	kretaše	kretaše	kretasmo	kretaste	kretahu
Conditional I		kretao bih²	kretao bi²	kretao bi²	kretali bismo²	kretali biste²	kretali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih kretao²	bȉo bi kretao²	bȉo bi kretao²	bíli bismo kretali²	bíli biste kretali²	bíli bi kretali²
Imperative		—	kreći	—	krećimo	krećite	—
Active past participle		kretao m / kretala f / kretalo n			kretali m / kretale f / kretala 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 edit

krénuti pf

References edit

“kretati” in Hrvatski jezični portal