prezirati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prězirati/
  • Hyphenation: pre‧zi‧ra‧ti

Verb

prèzirati impf (Cyrillic spelling прѐзирати)

  1. (transitive) to scorn, despise

Conjugation

Conjugation of prezirati
Infinitive: prezirati Present verbal adverb: prèzirūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: prèzirānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present prezirem prezireš prezire preziremo prezirete preziru
Future Future I prezirat ću1
preziraću 		prezirat ćeš1
preziraćeš 		prezirat će1
preziraće 		prezirat ćemo1
preziraćemo 		prezirat ćete1
preziraćete 		prezirat će1
preziraće
Future II bȕdēm prezirao2 bȕdēš prezirao2 bȕdē prezirao2 bȕdēmo prezirali2 bȕdēte prezirali2 bȕdū prezirali2
Past Perfect prezirao sam2 prezirao si2 prezirao je2 prezirali smo2 prezirali ste2 prezirali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam prezirao2 bȉo si prezirao2 bȉo je prezirao2 bíli smo prezirali2 bíli ste prezirali2 bíli su prezirali2
Imperfect prezirah preziraše preziraše prezirasmo preziraste prezirahu
Conditional I prezirao bih2 prezirao bi2 prezirao bi2 prezirali bismo2 prezirali biste2 prezirali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih prezirao2 bȉo bi prezirao2 bȉo bi prezirao2 bíli bismo prezirali2 bíli biste prezirali2 bíli bi prezirali2
Imperative — preziri — prezirimo prezirite —
Active past participle prezirao m / prezirala f / preziralo n prezirali m / prezirale f / prezirala n
Passive past participle preziran m / prezirana f / prezirano n prezirani m / prezirane f / prezirana 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

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