povratiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- +‎ vratiti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poʋrǎːtiti/
  • Hyphenation: po‧vra‧ti‧ti

Verb

povrátiti pf (Cyrillic spelling повра́тити)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to regurgitate, vomit, throw up
    Povratila je u zahod. ― She threw up in the toilet.
    Sve je povratio. ― He threw everything up.
    Povraća mi se. ― I feel like vomiting.
    Čini mi se da ću povratiti. ― I feel like vomiting.
  2. (transitive) to give back, return
  3. (transitive) to reestablish, restore, recover
    povratiti ravnotežu ― to restore balance
    povratiti pov(j)erenje ― to restore confidence
    povratiti pamćenje ― to recover one's memory
    Trudim se povratiti psihičke blokove i ponovo zarobiti zv(ij)er. ― I'm trying to restore the psychic blocks and cage the beast again.

Conjugation

Conjugation of povratiti
Infinitive: povratiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: povrátīvši 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 povratim povratiš povrati povratimo povratite povrate
Future Future I povratit ću1
povratiću 		povratit ćeš1
povratićeš 		povratit će1
povratiće 		povratit ćemo1
povratićemo 		povratit ćete1
povratićete 		povratit će1
povratiće
Future II bȕdēm povratio2 bȕdēš povratio2 bȕdē povratio2 bȕdēmo povratili2 bȕdēte povratili2 bȕdū povratili2
Past Perfect povratio sam2 povratio si2 povratio je2 povratili smo2 povratili ste2 povratili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam povratio2 bȉo si povratio2 bȉo je povratio2 bíli smo povratili2 bíli ste povratili2 bíli su povratili2
Aorist povratih povrati povrati povratismo povratiste povratiše
Conditional I povratio bih2 povratio bi2 povratio bi2 povratili bismo2 povratili biste2 povratili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih povratio2 bȉo bi povratio2 bȉo bi povratio2 bíli bismo povratili2 bíli biste povratili2 bíli bi povratili2
Imperative — povrati — povratimo povratite —
Active past participle povratio m / povratila f / povratilo n povratili m / povratile f / povratila n
Passive past participle povraćen m / povraćena f / povraćeno n povraćeni m / povraćene f / povraćena 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

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