zatvarati

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zatʋǎːrati/
  • Hyphenation: za‧tva‧ra‧ti

Verb

zatvárati impf (Cyrillic spelling затва́рати)

  1. (transitive) to close (down), shut (down)
  2. (transitive) to imprison, detain
  3. (transitive, reflexive) to lock up (in a house, box etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zatvarati
Infinitive: zatvarati Present verbal adverb: zatvárajūći Past verbal adverb: — Verbal noun: zatvárānje
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present zàtvārām zatvaraš zatvara zatvaramo zatvarate zatvaraju
Future Future I zatvarat ću1
zatvaraću 		zatvarat ćeš1
zatvaraćeš 		zatvarat će1
zatvaraće 		zatvarat ćemo1
zatvaraćemo 		zatvarat ćete1
zatvaraćete 		zatvarat će1
zatvaraće
Future II bȕdēm zatvarao2 bȕdēš zatvarao2 bȕdē zatvarao2 bȕdēmo zatvarali2 bȕdēte zatvarali2 bȕdū zatvarali2
Past Perfect zatvarao sam2 zatvarao si2 zatvarao je2 zatvarali smo2 zatvarali ste2 zatvarali su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam zatvarao2 bȉo si zatvarao2 bȉo je zatvarao2 bíli smo zatvarali2 bíli ste zatvarali2 bíli su zatvarali2
Imperfect zatvarah zatvaraše zatvaraše zatvarasmo zatvaraste zatvarahu
Conditional I zatvarao bih2 zatvarao bi2 zatvarao bi2 zatvarali bismo2 zatvarali biste2 zatvarali bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih zatvarao2 bȉo bi zatvarao2 bȉo bi zatvarao2 bíli bismo zatvarali2 bíli biste zatvarali2 bíli bi zatvarali2
Imperative — zatvaraj — zatvarajmo zatvarajte —
Active past participle zatvarao m / zatvarala f / zatvaralo n zatvarali m / zatvarale f / zatvarala n
Passive past participle zatvaran m / zatvarana f / zatvarano n zatvarani m / zatvarane f / zatvarana 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

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