tjerati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

tȅrati (Ekavian)
ćȅrati (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *těrjati.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tjêrati/
Hyphenation: tje‧ra‧ti

Verb

tjȅrati impf (Cyrillic spelling тје̏рати)

(transitive) to force, make
(transitive) to induce, cause
(transitive) to drive, drive out, drive away
(transitive) to chase, hunt, pursue
(transitive) to sprout, shoot (of plants)
(reflexive) to be in heat (of animals)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tjerati

Infinitive: tjerati		Present verbal adverb: tjȅrajūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: tjȅrānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		tjeram	tjeraš	tjera	tjeramo	tjerate	tjeraju
Future	Future I	tjerat ću¹ tjeraću	tjerat ćeš¹ tjeraćeš	tjerat će¹ tjeraće	tjerat ćemo¹ tjeraćemo	tjerat ćete¹ tjeraćete	tjerat će¹ tjeraće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm tjerao²	bȕdēš tjerao²	bȕdē tjerao²	bȕdēmo tjerali²	bȕdēte tjerali²	bȕdū tjerali²
Past	Perfect	tjerao sam²	tjerao si²	tjerao je²	tjerali smo²	tjerali ste²	tjerali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam tjerao²	bȉo si tjerao²	bȉo je tjerao²	bíli smo tjerali²	bíli ste tjerali²	bíli su tjerali²
	Imperfect	tjerah	tjeraše	tjeraše	tjerasmo	tjeraste	tjerahu
Conditional I		tjerao bih²	tjerao bi²	tjerao bi²	tjerali bismo²	tjerali biste²	tjerali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih tjerao²	bȉo bi tjerao²	bȉo bi tjerao²	bíli bismo tjerali²	bíli biste tjerali²	bíli bi tjerali²
Imperative		—	tjeraj	—	tjerajmo	tjerajte	—
Active past participle		tjerao m / tjerala f / tjeralo n			tjerali m / tjerale f / tjerala n
Passive past participle		tjeran m / tjerana f / tjerano n			tjerani m / tjerane f / tjerana 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.

Derived terms