krenuti

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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

Further reading

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