skraćivati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skrat͡ɕǐːʋati/
  • Hyphenation: skra‧ći‧va‧ti

Verb

skraćívati impf (Cyrillic spelling скраћи́вати)

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of skraćivati
Infinitive: skraćivati Present verbal adverb: skràćujūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: skraćívānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present skraćujem skraćuješ skraćuje skraćujemo skraćujete skraćuju
Future Future I skraćivat ću1
skraćivaću 		skraćivat ćeš1
skraćivaćeš 		skraćivat će1
skraćivaće 		skraćivat ćemo1
skraćivaćemo 		skraćivat ćete1
skraćivaćete 		skraćivat će1
skraćivaće
Future II bȕdēm skraćivao2 bȕdēš skraćivao2 bȕdē skraćivao2 bȕdēmo skraćivali2 bȕdēte skraćivali2 bȕdū skraćivali2
Past Perfect skraćivao sam2 skraćivao si2 skraćivao je2 skraćivali smo2 skraćivali ste2 skraćivali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam skraćivao2 bȉo si skraćivao2 bȉo je skraćivao2 bíli smo skraćivali2 bíli ste skraćivali2 bíli su skraćivali2
Imperfect skraćivah skraćivaše skraćivaše skraćivasmo skraćivaste skraćivahu
Conditional I skraćivao bih2 skraćivao bi2 skraćivao bi2 skraćivali bismo2 skraćivali biste2 skraćivali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih skraćivao2 bȉo bi skraćivao2 bȉo bi skraćivao2 bíli bismo skraćivali2 bíli biste skraćivali2 bíli bi skraćivali2
Imperative — skraćuj — skraćujmo skraćujte —
Active past participle skraćivao m / skraćivala f / skraćivalo n skraćivali m / skraćivale f / skraćivala n
Passive past participle skraćivan m / skraćivana f / skraćivano n skraćivani m / skraćivane f / skraćivana 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

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