krenuti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kręnǫti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krěːnuti/
• Hyphenation: kre‧nu‧ti

Verb

krénuti pf (Cyrillic spelling кре́нути)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to move, set in motion
2. (intransitive) to begin, start (movement or activity)

Conjugation

Conjugation of krenuti

Infinitive: krenuti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: krénūvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		krenem	kreneš	krene	krenemo	krenete	krenu
Future	Future I	krenut ću1 krenuću	krenut ćeš1 krenućeš	krenut će1 krenuće	krenut ćemo1 krenućemo	krenut ćete1 krenućete	krenut će1 krenuće
	Future II	bȕdēm krenuo2	bȕdēš krenuo2	bȕdē krenuo2	bȕdēmo krenuli2	bȕdēte krenuli2	bȕdū krenuli2
Past	Perfect	krenuo sam2	krenuo si2	krenuo je2	krenuli smo2	krenuli ste2	krenuli su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam krenuo2	bȉo si krenuo2	bȉo je krenuo2	bíli smo krenuli2	bíli ste krenuli2	bíli su krenuli2
	Aorist	krenuh	krenu	krenu	krenusmo	krenuste	krenuše
Conditional I		krenuo bih2	krenuo bi2	krenuo bi2	krenuli bismo2	krenuli biste2	krenuli bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih krenuo2	bȉo bi krenuo2	bȉo bi krenuo2	bíli bismo krenuli2	bíli biste krenuli2	bíli bi krenuli2
Imperative		—	kreni	—	krenimo	krenite	—
Active past participle		krenuo m / krenula f / krenulo n			krenuli m / krenule f / krenula 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

• iskrénuti
• nakrénuti
• okrénuti
• pokrénuti
• skrénuti
• zakrénuti

Related terms

• krétati impf

Further reading

• Pero Budmani, editor (1898–1903), “krénuti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 5, Zagreb: JAZU, page 505