krotiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krotiti (Russian укроти́ть (ukrotítʹ), Polish ukrocić), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrot(H)- (Sanskrit श्रथ्नाति (śrathnāti), Old English hreddan).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /krǒtiti/
Hyphenation: kro‧ti‧ti

Verb

kròtiti impf (Cyrillic spelling кро̀тити)

(transitive) to tame

Conjugation

Conjugation of krotiti

Infinitive: krotiti		Present verbal adverb: kròtēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: kròćēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		krotim	krotiš	kroti	krotimo	krotite	krote
Future	Future I	krotit ću¹ krotiću	krotit ćeš¹ krotićeš	krotit će¹ krotiće	krotit ćemo¹ krotićemo	krotit ćete¹ krotićete	krotit će¹ krotiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm krotio²	bȕdēš krotio²	bȕdē krotio²	bȕdēmo krotili²	bȕdēte krotili²	bȕdū krotili²
Past	Perfect	krotio sam²	krotio si²	krotio je²	krotili smo²	krotili ste²	krotili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam krotio²	bȉo si krotio²	bȉo je krotio²	bíli smo krotili²	bíli ste krotili²	bíli su krotili²
	Imperfect	kroćah	kroćaše	kroćaše	kroćasmo	kroćaste	kroćahu
Conditional I		krotio bih²	krotio bi²	krotio bi²	krotili bismo²	krotili biste²	krotili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih krotio²	bȉo bi krotio²	bȉo bi krotio²	bíli bismo krotili²	bíli biste krotili²	bíli bi krotili²
Imperative		—	kroti	—	krotimo	krotite	—
Active past participle		krotio m / krotila f / krotilo n			krotili m / krotile f / krotila n
Passive past participle		kroćen m / kroćena f / kroćeno n			kroćeni m / kroćene f / kroćena 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.

References

“krotiti” in Hrvatski jezični portal