potrefiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German treffen. CompareCzech potrefit, Kashubian pòtrafic, Carpathian Rusyn потрафити (potrafyty), Macedonian потрефи (potrefi), Polish potrafić, Silesian potrefić, and Slovak potrafiť.

Verb

pòtrefiti pf (Cyrillic spelling по̀трефити)

  1. (colloquial) to hit (a target)
  2. (colloquial) to guess correctly

Conjugation

Conjugation of potrefiti
Infinitive: potrefiti Present verbal adverb: potrefivši Past verbal adverb: — 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 potrefim potrefiš potrefi potrefimo potrefite potrefe
Future Future I potrefit ću1
potrefiću 		potrefit ćeš1
potrefićeš 		potrefit će1
potrefiće 		potrefit ćemo1
potrefićemo 		potrefit ćete1
potrefićete 		potrefit će1
potrefiće
Future II bȕdēm potrefio2 bȕdēš potrefio2 bȕdē potrefio2 bȕdēmo potrefili2 bȕdēte potrefili2 bȕdū potrefili2
Past Perfect potrefio sam2 potrefio si2 potrefio je2 potrefili smo2 potrefili ste2 potrefili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam potrefio2 bȉo si potrefio2 bȉo je potrefio2 bíli smo potrefili2 bíli ste potrefili2 bíli su potrefili2
Imperfect potrefih potrefi potrefi potrefismo potrefiste potrefiše
Conditional I potrefio bih2 potrefio bi2 potrefio bi2 potrefili bismo2 potrefili biste2 potrefili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih potrefio2 bȉo bi potrefio2 bȉo bi potrefio2 bíli bismo potrefili2 bíli biste potrefili2 bíli bi potrefili2
Imperative — potrefi — potrefimo potrefite —
Active past participle potrefio m / potrefila f / potrefilo n potrefili m / potrefile f / potrefila 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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