pretvarati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pretʋǎːrati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧tva‧ra‧ti

Verb

pretvárati impf (Cyrillic spelling претва́рати)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to turn into, to transform, to change
  2. (reflexive) to pretend, feign

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretvarati
Infinitive: pretvarati Present verbal adverb: pretvárajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: pretvárānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present pretvaram pretvaraš pretvara pretvaramo pretvarate pretvaraju
Future Future I pretvarat ću1
pretvaraću 		pretvarat ćeš1
pretvaraćeš 		pretvarat će1
pretvaraće 		pretvarat ćemo1
pretvaraćemo 		pretvarat ćete1
pretvaraćete 		pretvarat će1
pretvaraće
Future II bȕdēm pretvarao2 bȕdēš pretvarao2 bȕdē pretvarao2 bȕdēmo pretvarali2 bȕdēte pretvarali2 bȕdū pretvarali2
Past Perfect pretvarao sam2 pretvarao si2 pretvarao je2 pretvarali smo2 pretvarali ste2 pretvarali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pretvarao2 bȉo si pretvarao2 bȉo je pretvarao2 bíli smo pretvarali2 bíli ste pretvarali2 bíli su pretvarali2
Imperfect pretvarah pretvaraše pretvaraše pretvarasmo pretvaraste pretvarahu
Conditional I pretvarao bih2 pretvarao bi2 pretvarao bi2 pretvarali bismo2 pretvarali biste2 pretvarali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pretvarao2 bȉo bi pretvarao2 bȉo bi pretvarao2 bíli bismo pretvarali2 bíli biste pretvarali2 bíli bi pretvarali2
Imperative — pretvaraj — pretvarajmo pretvarajte —
Active past participle pretvarao m / pretvarala f / pretvaralo n pretvarali m / pretvarale f / pretvarala n
Passive past participle pretvaran m / pretvarana f / pretvarano n pretvarani m / pretvarane f / pretvarana 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.

Further reading

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