preletati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

prelijétati (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /prelěːtati/
Hyphenation: pre‧le‧ta‧ti

Verb

prelétati impf (Cyrillic spelling преле́тати)

(transitive) to fly over/across
(transitive) to glance, skim over
(transitive, politics) to cross the floor from one party to another in parliament or council

Conjugation

Conjugation of preletati

Infinitive: preletati		Present verbal adverb: preléćūći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: prelétānje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		preletam	preletaš	preleta	preletamo	preletate	preletaju
Future	Future I	preletat ću¹ preletaću	preletat ćeš¹ preletaćeš	preletat će¹ preletaće	preletat ćemo¹ preletaćemo	preletat ćete¹ preletaćete	preletat će¹ preletaće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm preletao²	bȕdēš preletao²	bȕdē preletao²	bȕdēmo preletali²	bȕdēte preletali²	bȕdū preletali²
Past	Perfect	preletao sam²	preletao si²	preletao je²	preletali smo²	preletali ste²	preletali su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam preletao²	bȉo si preletao²	bȉo je preletao²	bíli smo preletali²	bíli ste preletali²	bíli su preletali²
	Imperfect	preletah	preletaše	preletaše	preletasmo	preletaste	preletahu
Conditional I		preletao bih²	preletao bi²	preletao bi²	preletali bismo²	preletali biste²	preletali bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih preletao²	bȉo bi preletao²	bȉo bi preletao²	bíli bismo preletali²	bíli biste preletali²	bíli bi preletali²
Imperative		—	preletaj	—	preletajmo	preletajte	—
Active past participle		preletao m / preletala f / preletalo n			preletali m / preletale f / preletala n
Passive past participle		preletan m / preletana f / preletano n			preletani m / preletane f / preletana 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

prelèteti pf