pretvoriti

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pre- +‎ tvoriti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pretʋǒriti/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧tvo‧ri‧ti

Verb

pretvòriti pf (Cyrillic spelling претво̀рити)

  1. (transitive, reflexive) to turn into, to transform, to change
    pretvoriti u prah ― to turn into dust
    Da li se žaba ipak može pretvoriti u princa? - Can a frog still turn into a prince?

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretvoriti
Infinitive: pretvoriti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: pretvòrīvši 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 pretvorim pretvoriš pretvori pretvorimo pretvorite pretvore
Future Future I pretvorit ću1
pretvoriću 		pretvorit ćeš1
pretvorićeš 		pretvorit će1
pretvoriće 		pretvorit ćemo1
pretvorićemo 		pretvorit ćete1
pretvorićete 		pretvorit će1
pretvoriće
Future II bȕdēm pretvorio2 bȕdēš pretvorio2 bȕdē pretvorio2 bȕdēmo pretvorili2 bȕdēte pretvorili2 bȕdū pretvorili2
Past Perfect pretvorio sam2 pretvorio si2 pretvorio je2 pretvorili smo2 pretvorili ste2 pretvorili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam pretvorio2 bȉo si pretvorio2 bȉo je pretvorio2 bíli smo pretvorili2 bíli ste pretvorili2 bíli su pretvorili2
Aorist pretvorih pretvori pretvori pretvorismo pretvoriste pretvoriše
Conditional I pretvorio bih2 pretvorio bi2 pretvorio bi2 pretvorili bismo2 pretvorili biste2 pretvorili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih pretvorio2 bȉo bi pretvorio2 bȉo bi pretvorio2 bíli bismo pretvorili2 bíli biste pretvorili2 bíli bi pretvorili2
Imperative — pretvori — pretvorimo pretvorite —
Active past participle pretvorio m / pretvorila f / pretvorilo n pretvorili m / pretvorile f / pretvorila n
Passive past participle pretvoren m / pretvorena f / pretvoreno n pretvoreni m / pretvorene f / pretvorena 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

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