kretati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *krętati. Cognate with Polish krzątać.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krěːtati/
  • Hyphenation: kre‧ta‧ti

Verb

krétati impf (Cyrillic spelling кре́тати)

  1. (reflexive) to move
  2. (reflexive) to range
  3. (intransitive) to begin, start (movement or activity)

Conjugation

Conjugation of kretati
Infinitive: kretati Present verbal adverb: kréćūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: krétānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present krećem krećeš kreće krećemo krećete kreću
Future Future I kretat ću1
kretaću 		kretat ćeš1
kretaćeš 		kretat će1
kretaće 		kretat ćemo1
kretaćemo 		kretat ćete1
kretaćete 		kretat će1
kretaće
Future II bȕdēm kretao2 bȕdēš kretao2 bȕdē kretao2 bȕdēmo kretali2 bȕdēte kretali2 bȕdū kretali2
Past Perfect kretao sam2 kretao si2 kretao je2 kretali smo2 kretali ste2 kretali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam kretao2 bȉo si kretao2 bȉo je kretao2 bíli smo kretali2 bíli ste kretali2 bíli su kretali2
Imperfect kretah kretaše kretaše kretasmo kretaste kretahu
Conditional I kretao bih2 kretao bi2 kretao bi2 kretali bismo2 kretali biste2 kretali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih kretao2 bȉo bi kretao2 bȉo bi kretao2 bíli bismo kretali2 bíli biste kretali2 bíli bi kretali2
Imperative — kreći — krećimo krećite —
Active past participle kretao m / kretala f / kretalo n kretali m / kretale f / kretala 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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References

  • “kretati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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