kraćati

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See also: kracati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From kràtak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krǎt͡ɕati/
  • Hyphenation: kra‧ća‧ti

Verb

kràćati impf (Cyrillic spelling кра̀ћати)

  1. (intransitive) to grow shorter, get shorter

Conjugation

Conjugation of kraćati
Infinitive: kraćati Present verbal adverb: kràćajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: kràćānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present kraćam kraćaš kraća kraćamo kraćate kraćaju
Future Future I kraćat ću1
kraćaću 		kraćat ćeš1
kraćaćeš 		kraćat će1
kraćaće 		kraćat ćemo1
kraćaćemo 		kraćat ćete1
kraćaćete 		kraćat će1
kraćaće
Future II bȕdēm kraćao2 bȕdēš kraćao2 bȕdē kraćao2 bȕdēmo kraćali2 bȕdēte kraćali2 bȕdū kraćali2
Past Perfect kraćao sam2 kraćao si2 kraćao je2 kraćali smo2 kraćali ste2 kraćali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kraćao2 bȉo si kraćao2 bȉo je kraćao2 bíli smo kraćali2 bíli ste kraćali2 bíli su kraćali2
Imperfect kraćah kraćaše kraćaše kraćasmo kraćaste kraćahu
Conditional I kraćao bih2 kraćao bi2 kraćao bi2 kraćali bismo2 kraćali biste2 kraćali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kraćao2 bȉo bi kraćao2 bȉo bi kraćao2 bíli bismo kraćali2 bíli biste kraćali2 bíli bi kraćali2
Imperative — kraćaj — kraćajmo kraćajte —
Active past participle kraćao m / kraćala f / kraćalo n kraćali m / kraćale f / kraćala 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

  • “kraćati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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