skratiti

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skrǎːtiti/
  • Hyphenation: skra‧ti‧ti

Verb

skrátiti pf (Cyrillic spelling скра́тити)

  1. (transitive) to shorten, make shorter
  2. (transitive) to abbreviate
  3. (transitive) to reduce (a fraction)
  4. (reflexive) to become shorter

Conjugation

Conjugation of skratiti
Infinitive: skratiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: skrátīvši 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 skratim skratiš skrati skratimo skratite skrate
Future Future I skratit ću1
skratiću 		skratit ćeš1
skratićeš 		skratit će1
skratiće 		skratit ćemo1
skratićemo 		skratit ćete1
skratićete 		skratit će1
skratiće
Future II bȕdēm skratio2 bȕdēš skratio2 bȕdē skratio2 bȕdēmo skratili2 bȕdēte skratili2 bȕdū skratili2
Past Perfect skratio sam2 skratio si2 skratio je2 skratili smo2 skratili ste2 skratili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam skratio2 bȉo si skratio2 bȉo je skratio2 bíli smo skratili2 bíli ste skratili2 bíli su skratili2
Aorist skratih skrati skrati skratismo skratiste skratiše
Conditional I skratio bih2 skratio bi2 skratio bi2 skratili bismo2 skratili biste2 skratili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih skratio2 bȉo bi skratio2 bȉo bi skratio2 bíli bismo skratili2 bíli biste skratili2 bíli bi skratili2
Imperative — skrati — skratimo skratite —
Active past participle skratio m / skratila f / skratilo n skratili m / skratile f / skratila n
Passive past participle skraćen m / skraćena f / skraćeno n skraćeni m / skraćene f / skraćena 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

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