pretiti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

prijétiti (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pertiti.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /prěːtiti/
Hyphenation: pre‧ti‧ti

Verb

prétiti impf (Cyrillic spelling пре́тити)

(intransitive) to threaten, menace

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretiti

Infinitive: pretiti		Present verbal adverb: prétēći		Past verbal adverb: —		Verbal noun: préćēnje
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pretim	pretiš	preti	pretimo	pretite	prete
Future	Future I	pretit ću¹ pretiću	pretit ćeš¹ pretićeš	pretit će¹ pretiće	pretit ćemo¹ pretićemo	pretit ćete¹ pretićete	pretit će¹ pretiće
Future	Future II	bȕdēm pretio²	bȕdēš pretio²	bȕdē pretio²	bȕdēmo pretili²	bȕdēte pretili²	bȕdū pretili²
Past	Perfect	pretio sam²	pretio si²	pretio je²	pretili smo²	pretili ste²	pretili su²
	Pluperfect³	bȉo sam pretio²	bȉo si pretio²	bȉo je pretio²	bíli smo pretili²	bíli ste pretili²	bíli su pretili²
	Imperfect	prećah	prećaše	prećaše	prećasmo	prećaste	prećahu
Conditional I		pretio bih²	pretio bi²	pretio bi²	pretili bismo²	pretili biste²	pretili bi²
Conditional II⁴		bȉo bih pretio²	bȉo bi pretio²	bȉo bi pretio²	bíli bismo pretili²	bíli biste pretili²	bíli bi pretili²
Imperative		—	preti	—	pretimo	pretite	—
Active past participle		pretio m / pretila f / pretilo n			pretili m / pretile f / pretila 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.

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