kreveljiti

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Slovene krevlja +‎ -iti, from Middle High German krewel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kreʋěːʎiti/
  • Hyphenation: kre‧ve‧lji‧ti

Verb

krevéljiti impf (Cyrillic spelling креве́љити)

  1. (reflexive) to mug (exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis)

Conjugation

Conjugation of kreveljiti
infinitive kreveljiti
present verbal adverb krevéljēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun krevéljēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present kreveljim kreveljiš krevelji kreveljimo kreveljite krevelje
future future I kreveljit ću1
kreveljiću
kreveljit ćeš1
kreveljićeš
kreveljit će1
kreveljiće
kreveljit ćemo1
kreveljićemo
kreveljit ćete1
kreveljićete
kreveljit ćē1
kreveljiće
future II bȕdēm kreveljio2 bȕdēš kreveljio2 bȕdē kreveljio2 bȕdēmo kreveljili2 bȕdēte kreveljili2 bȕdū kreveljili2
past perfect kreveljio sam2 kreveljio si2 kreveljio je2 kreveljili smo2 kreveljili ste2 kreveljili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam kreveljio2 bȉo si kreveljio2 bȉo je kreveljio2 bíli smo kreveljili2 bíli ste kreveljili2 bíli su kreveljili2
imperfect kreveljah kreveljaše kreveljaše kreveljasmo kreveljaste kreveljahu
conditional conditional I kreveljio bih2 kreveljio bi2 kreveljio bi2 kreveljili bismo2 kreveljili biste2 kreveljili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih kreveljio2 bȉo bi kreveljio2 bȉo bi kreveljio2 bíli bismo kreveljili2 bíli biste kreveljili2 bíli bi kreveljili2
imperative krevelji kreveljimo kreveljite
active past participle kreveljio m / kreveljila f / kreveljilo n kreveljili m / kreveljile f / kreveljila 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.

References

  • kreveljiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025