praviti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prâʋiti/
  • Hyphenation: pra‧vi‧ti

Verb

prȁviti impf (Cyrillic spelling пра̏вити)

  1. (transitive) to make, create
  2. (transitive) to do, cause, deal (damage, trouble, inconvenience etc.)
  3. (reflexive, colloquial) to fake, pretend
    (with adjective) Neki ljudi se prave pametni. ― Some people pretend to be smart.
    (with da + subordinate clause) Pravit ću se da to nisam vidio. ― I'll pretend that I didn't see that.

Conjugation

Conjugation of praviti
Infinitive: praviti Present verbal adverb: prȁvēći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: prȁvljēnje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pravim praviš pravi pravimo pravite prave
Future Future I pravit ću1
praviću 		pravit ćeš1
pravićeš 		pravit će1
praviće 		pravit ćemo1
pravićemo 		pravit ćete1
pravićete 		pravit će1
praviće
Future II bȕdēm pravio2 bȕdēš pravio2 bȕdē pravio2 bȕdēmo pravili2 bȕdēte pravili2 bȕdū pravili2
Past Perfect pravio sam2 pravio si2 pravio je2 pravili smo2 pravili ste2 pravili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pravio2 bȉo si pravio2 bȉo je pravio2 bíli smo pravili2 bíli ste pravili2 bíli su pravili2
Imperfect pravljah pravljaše pravljaše pravljasmo pravljaste pravljahu
Conditional I pravio bih2 pravio bi2 pravio bi2 pravili bismo2 pravili biste2 pravili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pravio2 bȉo bi pravio2 bȉo bi pravio2 bíli bismo pravili2 bíli biste pravili2 bíli bi pravili2
Imperative — pravi — pravimo pravite —
Active past participle pravio m / pravila f / pravilo n pravili m / pravile f / pravila n
Passive past participle pravljen m / pravljena f / pravljeno n pravljeni m / pravljene f / pravljena 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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